Table 3. Admission characteristics for patients screened for Candida auris with medical records linked to the Case Mix Programme database and for national cohort patients, England, 2017–2018.

Admission characteristics	Screened cohorta n = 907		National cohortb n = 170,540		p value
Source of admission	n	%	n	%
Emergency department, unplanned	297	32.7	45,575	26.7	< 0.001c
Emergency department, planned	7	0.8	819	0.5
Operating theatre following elective surgery, planned	94	10.4	33,807	19.8
Operating theatre following elective surgery, unplanned	15	1.7	6,363	3.7
Operating theatre following emergency surgery	176	19.4	31,666	18.6
Ward or intermediate care area	248	27.3	44,354	26.0
Other critical care unit, repatriation	14	1.5	1,175	0.7
Other critical care unit, planned or unplanned	51	5.6	5,403	3.2
Other acute hospital not critical care	5	0.6	1,378	0.8
Severity scores	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	p value
ICNARC physiology score	17.8	8.8	16.4	9.0	< 0.001d
APACHE II Acute Physiology Scoree	11.8	5.6	11.1	5.9	< 0.001d
APACHE II Scoree	16.2	6.8	15.4	6.8	< 0.001d
ICNARCH-2015 model	Median	IQR	Median	IQR	p value
ICNARCH-2015 model predicted risk of acute hospital mortality	8.4	2.2–30.7	7.4	1.9–26.9	0.014f

APACHE II: Acute Physiology And Chronic Health Evaluation II; ICNARC: Intensive Care National Audit and Research Centre; IQR: interquartile range; SD: standard deviation.

^a 907/998 screened patients had records that were successfully linked to the Case Mix Programme database.

^b These data derive from the Case Mix Programme database. The Case Mix Programme is the national clinical audit of patient outcomes from adult critical care coordinated by the Intensive Care National Audit and Research Centre (ICNARC). For more information on the representativeness and quality of these data, please contact ICNARC (https://www.icnarc.org/).

^c Chi-squared test.

^d t-test.

^e Excluding admissions aged less than 16 years and admissions staying less than 8 hours in the critical care unit.

^f Wilcoxon rank-sum test.