Table 2. Patients without and with bacteremia, characteristics, and average cost of the episode.
| Patients | Patients with bacteremia | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| without bacteremia | multidrug-sensitive | multidrug-resistent | P-value | ||||
| Number of patients | 82,022 | 404 | 167 | ||||
| Male sex (N, %) | 43,256 | 52.7 | 249 | 61.6 | 101 | 60.5 | <0.000 |
| Age (mean, SD) | 67.1 | 17.0 | 64.7 | 15.8 | 67.2 | 14.7 | 0.017 |
| Urgent admission (N, %) | 53,171 | 64.8 | 291 | 72.0 | 126 | 75.4 | <0.000 |
| Surgical patient (N, %) | 34,534 | 42.1 | 193 | 47.8 | 67 | 40.1 | 0.062 |
| Intensive care unit admission (N, %) | 4,508 | 5.5 | 128 | 31.7 | 51 | 30.5 | <0.000 |
| Exitus (N, %) | 3,852 | 4.7 | 112 | 27.7 | 52 | 31.1 | <0.000 |
| Elixhauser index (mean, SD) | 2.6 | 1.9 | 2.6 | 1.7 | 2.8 | 1.9 | 0.428 |
| APR-DRG weight (mean, SD) | 1.1539 | 0.8405 | 1.9435 | 2.2947 | 1.8310 | 2.0532 | <0.000 |
| Length of hospital stay (mean, SD) | 10.8 | 10.3 | 32.2 | 28.0 | 37.2 | 24.4 | <0.000 |
| Length of hospital stay prior to bacteremia (mean, SD) | - | 14.5 | 15.2 | 18.5 | 13.4 | - | |
| Total cost observed (mean, SD) | 6,750 | 7,619 | 24,960 | 31,154 | 28,143 | 23,964 | <0.000 |
Abbreviation: APR-DRG = all-patient refined-diagnosis related group.