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Published in final edited form as: J Am Coll Cardiol. 2015 Jan 6;65(1):15–23. doi: 10.1016/j.jacc.2014.09.079

Table 2.

Types of major infection during index hospitalization and re-hospitalization

Type of infection	Index		Re-hospitalization
Type of infection	# of Events	Patients ^‡ N (%)	# of Events	Patients ^‡ N (%)
Pneumonia	73	72 (1.67)	33	33 (0.76)
Bloodstream Infection	31	28 (0.65)	14	14 (0.32)
Clostridium difficile	28	28 (0.65)	17	15 (0.35)
Deep Incision Surgical site infect. (Chest)^*	6	6 (0.15)	18	17 (0.44)
Deep Incision Surgical site infect. (Groin)^*	2	2 (0.05)	5	5 (0.13)
Mediastinitis	5	5 (0.12)	5	5 (0.12)
Myocarditis or pericarditis	3	3 (0.07)	2	2 (0.05)
Empyema	2	2 (0.05)	1	1 (0.02)
Pocket infection^†	1	1 (1.27)	1	1 (1.27)
Device-related percutaneous site infection	0	0 (0)	1	1 (0.02)
Endocarditis	0	0 (0)	2	2 (0.05)
Total	151	119 (2.7)	99	88 (2.0)

Denominator for patients with a deep surgical site infection is patients having a sternotomy (n =3,891).

^†

Denominator for patients with pocket infection is patients who had VAD placed, replaced, or removed for heart transplant (n = 79)

^‡

Denominator for other patients is entire population (n = 4,320)