Table 1.
Demographic characteristics of hospitalized inpatients and outpatients with stools analyzed for C. difficile toxin B detection.
| CDTB Analyses |
Total
N (%°) |
||
|---|---|---|---|
| Patients Variables |
Negative
N (%*) |
Positive
N (%*) |
|
| Gender | |||
| Females | 2,164 (86.6) | 335 (13.4) | 2,499 (54.4) |
| Males | 1,869 (89.4) | 222 (10.6) | 2,091 (45.6) |
| Age, years | |||
| 0-64 | 1,270 (91.5) | 118 (8.5) | 1,388 (30.2) |
| 65-79 | 1,344 (88.2) | 180 (11.8) | 1,524 (33.2) |
| >=80 | 1,419 (84.6) | 259 (15.4) | 1,678 (36.6) |
| Patients provenance | |||
| hospital | 3,622 (87.6) | 511 (12.4) | 4,133 (90.0) |
| community | 411 (89.9) | 46 (10.1) | 457 (10.0) |
| Year of analysis | |||
| 2010 a | 341 (85.7) | 57 (14.3) | 398 (8.7) |
| 2011 | 558 (88.7) | 71 (11.3) | 629 (13.7) |
| 2012 | 623 (89.3) | 75 (10.7) | 698 (15.2) |
| 2013 | 846 (87.0) | 126 (13.0) | 972 (21.2) |
| 2014 | 1,297 (87.5) | 186 (12.5) | 1,483 (32.3) |
| 2015 b | 368 (89.8) | 42 (10.2) | 410 (8.9) |
| Season | |||
| Winter | 1,212 (87.1) | 179 (12.9) | 1391 (30.3) |
| Spring | 960 (87.8) | 133 (12.2) | 1,093 (23.8) |
| Summer | 855 (89.5) | 100 (10.5) | 955 (20.8) |
| Autumn | 1,006 (87.4) | 145 (12.6) | 1,151 (25.1) |
* Row percentage.
°Column percentage.
a9 months.
b3 months.