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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2017 Dec 17;39(1):12–19. doi: 10.1017/ice.2017.254

TABLE 3.

Index MDRO Hospitalization Factors Associated With Readmission (Within 1 Year) in Which an MDRO Was Isolated Compared to Readmitted Patients Without MDROs a

Factor From Index MDRO
Hospitalizationb 		HR (95% CI) P Value
Carbapenem-resistant Pseudomonas 1.98 (1.35–2.90) <.001
MRSA 1.31 (1.03–1.68) .047
Bone marrow transplant 1.80 (1.14–2.84) .012
Lymphoma 1.48 (1.05–2.09) .022
End-stage renal disease 1.42 (1.05–1.92) .020

NOTE. MDRO, multidrug-resistant organism; HR, hazard ratio; CI, confidence interval; MRSA, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus; VRE, vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus.

a

Multivariable Cox proportional hazards model.

b

Other variables included in the model that were not significant: ethnicity, sex, cardiovascular disease, congestive heart failure, chronic kidney disease, diabetes, leukemia, solid organ malignancy, Charlson comorbidity index, positive blood culture MDRO, positive other sterile site MDRO culture, VRE, drug-resistant Acinetobacter, discharge disposition, and index hospital length of stay.