Table 5.
Risk factors for bacteremia with resistant GNRs
| Variable | Exposure | Bacteremic? |
Total | Odds Ratios (95% CI) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yes | No | |||||
| Unadjusted risk | Adjusted risk* | |||||
| Hospital | PGH | 59 (6%) | 876 (94%) | 926 | Reference | Reference |
| JFMH | 299 (33%) | 606 (67%) | 905 | 4.8 (3.6-6.5) | 4.1 (2.9 – 5.7) | |
| Sex | Female | 148 (20%) | 593 (80%) | 741 | Reference | Reference |
| Male | 209 (19%) | 878 (81%) | 1087 | 1.0 (0.8-1.2) | 0.8 (0.6 - 1.1) | |
| Birth weight | 2500+g | 92 (16%) | 488 (84%) | 580 | Reference | Reference |
| 1500-2499g | 168 (22%) | 583 (78%) | 751 | 1.4 (1.1-1.8) | 1.0 (0.7 – 1.4) | |
| 1000-1499g | 87 (23%) | 292 (77%) | 379 | 1.3 (1.0-1.7) | 0.9 (0.6 – 1.5) | |
| < 1000g | 10 (9%) | 108 (92%) | 118 | 0.4 (0.2-0.7) | 0.2 (0.1-0.5) | |
| Gestational age | >36 weeks | 107 (16%) | 582 (85%) | 689 | Reference | Reference |
| 29-36 weeks | 228 (22%) | 794 (78%) | 1022 | 1.5 (1.2-1.9) | 1.5 (1.0 – 2.1) | |
| <29 weeks | 22 (19%) | 95 (81%) | 117 | 1.0 (0.6-1.5) | 2.5 (1.2 – 5.1) | |
| Central venous catheterization | No | 127 (13%) | 867 (87%) | 994 | Reference | Reference |
| Yes | 231 (28%) | 606 (62%) | 837 | 2.1 (2.1-3.3) | 1.1 (0.8 – 1.5) | |
| Mechanical ventilation | No | 39 (6%) | 666 (95%) | 702 | Reference | Reference |
| Yes | 319 (28%) | 807 (72%) | 1126 | 6.8 (4.8-9.6) | 2.8 (1.8 – 4.3) | |
| Colonized by resistant GNR | No | 103 (13%) | 711 (87%) | 814 | Reference | Reference |
| Yes | 255 (25%) | 762 (75%) | 1017 | 2.3 (1.8-3.0) | 1.4 (1.0 – 1.9) | |
Abbreviations: JFMH – Jose Fabella Memorial Hospital; GNR – Gram-negative rod; PGH – Philippines General Hospital
*
The relative risks were adjusted for all of the other variables listed on this table.