Table 1.

Characteristics of All Patients and Mupirocin-Treated Patients

Characteristics	Mupirocin Recipients (n = 35235)	All Patient Records (n = 445680)
Female, no. (%)	19340 (54.9)	285235 (64)
Male, no. (%)	15894 (45.1)	160445 (36.0)
Mean age ± 1 SD, y	75.4 ± 17.3	61.0 ± 14.0
Non-Hispanic, no. (%)	34900 (99.1)	435875 (97.8)
ICU patients,a no. (%)	6342 (18.0)	49916 (11.2)
Surgical patients, no. (%)	4545 (12.9)	88245 (19.8)
Medical patients, no. (%)	30690 (87.1)	357435 (80.2)
Mean length of stay ± 1 SD, d	5.7 ± 5.5	4.1 ± 4.5

Abbreviations: ICU, intensive care unit; SD, standard deviation.

^aICU patients were both surgical and medical patients.