TABLE 4.
Characteristics of overall treatment failure and treatment success for complicated MSSA bacteremia
| Outcome or parameter | Valuea for patients with: |
P value | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Failure (n = 30) | Success (n = 63) | ||
| Length of therapy (days)b | 38 (27–44) | 39 (25–44) | 0.75 |
| Less than 28 days | 8 (27) | 17 (27) | 0.55 |
| Received surgical interventions | 19 (63) | 25 (40) | 0.05 |
| Time to first surgery (days)b | 4 (2–8) | 3 (2–5) | 0.37 |
| Multiple surgeries | 7/19 (37) | 11/25 (44) | 0.65 |
| Duration of bacteremia (days)b | 7 (3–8) | 3 (2–4) | 0.0002 |
| Evidence of metastasis | 15 (50) | 17 (27) | 0.10 |
| Multiple sites of metastasis | 6/15 (40) | 3/17 (17) | 0.10 |
| Primary source | |||
| Catheter | 1 (3) | 6 (10) | 0.42 |
| Pneumonia | 1 (3) | 3 (5) | 1.0 |
| Endovascular | 4 (13) | 15 (24) | 0.28 |
| Osteoarticular | 17 (57) | 21 (33) | 0.04 |
| Soft tissue | 4 (13) | 5 (8) | 0.46 |
| Urinary tract | 2 (7) | 7 (4) | 1.0 |
| Unknown | 1 (3) | 9 (14) | 0.16 |
a
Values are numbers (with percentages in parenthese) unless indicated otherwise.
b
Values are medians (with interquartile ranges in parentheses).