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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Sep 3.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Infect Control. 2013 Feb 20;41(9):841–843. doi: 10.1016/j.ajic.2012.11.014

Table 1. Health care work setting characteristics.

Ambulatory setting type Participants enrolled, n (%)* Participants with S aureus colonization, n Number of SSTIs seen (per 1,000 patient visits)
Pediatric ED 1 49 (49.1) 6 2,350 (61)
Pediatric ED 2 33 (80.8) 7 2,757 (54.7)
Hospital-based clinic 18 (87.5) 4 112 (4.1)
Community-based clinic 1 12 (85.7) 1 5,603 (133)
Community-based clinic 2 9 (50.0) 2 105 (5.9)
Community-based clinic 3 7 (46.7) 1 187 (6.7)
Community-based clinic 4 12 (42.9) 3 385 (13.6)
Community-based clinic 5 12 (48.0) 1 277 (10.8)
Community-based clinic 6 8 (25.8) 0 320 (10.2)
Community-based clinic 7 28 (48.3) 5 600
Community-based clinic 8 25 (73.5) 5 273 (7.6)
Community-based clinic 9 14 (33.3) 3 385 (11.8)
Total 227 38 13,354 (309.4)

ED, Emergency department.

*

The percentage of those HCWs enrolled among who were eligible from each site.

This community clinic declined to provide data on total number of patient visits for the site.

Total number of SSTIs per 1,000 patient visits is an underestimation because of one clinic (community-based clinic 7) declining to provide total patient visits for the time period.