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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 May 18.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Med Dir Assoc. 2019 Sep 16;21(1):72–77. doi: 10.1016/j.jamda.2019.07.016

Table 1.

Percentage of Bacteria-Specific Antimicrobial Susceptibilities With Clinical Disagreement Between the Nursing Home and Affiliated Medical Center

Groupings of
NH-VAMC
Affiliate Pairs		 Number of
Nursing Home and
Affiliated Medical
Center Pairs		 Mean %
(Standard
Deviation)		 Median %
(Interquartile
Range)
All NH-VAMC pairs 119 20 (8) 19 (14-24)
 NH susceptibility ≥80%, VAMC susceptibility <80% 119 7 (5) 5 (3-10)
 NH susceptibility <80%, VAMC susceptibility ≥80% Campus 119 13 (8) 12 (6-17)
 Remote campus 35 19 (8) 20 (13-24)
 Same campus 84 20 (8) 19 (15-24)
Culture source
 Urine 117 21 (9) 20 (15-27)
 Skin and soft tissue 114 23 (14) 21 (14-30)
 Respiratory tract 57 24 (17) 25 (13-33)
 Blood 73 26 (20) 25 (13-38)
Nursing home bed size
 <50 beds 32 21 (9) 21 (17-24)
 50-99 beds 35 18 (7) 17 (13-22)
 100-199 beds 45 20 (7) 19 (15-24)
 >199 beds 7 18 (9) 17 (12-27)