Table 3.
Hospital disposition and re-admissions according to presence of bacteraemia and carbapenem resistance
| Overall, N=47,496 | With bacteraemia, n=11,629 | Without bacteraemia, n=35,867 | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Characteristic | CR, n=2076 | CS, n=45,420 | P value | CR, n=201 | CS, n=11,428 | P value | CR, n=1875 | CS, n=33,992 | P value |
| Discharge status, n (%) | |||||||||
| In-hospital death | 96 (4.6) | 2100 (4.6) | <0.001 | 21 (10.5) | 690 (6.0) | <0.001 | 75 (4.0) | 1410 (4.1) | <0.001 |
| Home | 798 (38.4) | 23,174 (51.0) | 62 (30.8) | 6321 (55.3) | 736 (39.3) | 16,853 (49.6) | |||
| Hospice | 108 (5.2) | 2049 (4.5) | 14 (7.0) | 463 (4.1) | 94 (5.0) | 1586 (4.7) | |||
| Other | 197 (9.5) | 3097 (6.8) | 18 (9.0) | 655 (5.7) | 179 (9.5) | 2442 (7.2) | |||
| Transfer | 877 (42.2) | 15,000 (33.0) | 86 (42.8) | 3299 (28.9) | 791 (42.2) | 11,701 (34.4) | |||
| Patients who were alive when they were discharged from hospital, n (%) | CR, n=1980 | CS, n=43,320 | P value | CR, n=180 | CS, n=10,738 | P value | CR, n=1800 | CS, n=32,582 | P value |
| Readmission with the same pathogena | 448 (22.6) | 5845 (13.5) | <0.001 | 35 (19.4) | 1314 (12.2) | 0.004 | 413 (22.9) | 4531 (13.9) | <0.001 |
| Readmission within 30 days | 136 (6.9) | 1174 (2.7) | 12 (6.7) | 263 (2.5) | 124 (6.9) | 911 (2.8) | |||
| Readmission between 31–60 days | 60 (3.0) | 802 (1.9) | 9 (5.0) | 204 (1.9) | 51 (2.8) | 598 (1.8) | |||
| Readmission between 61–90 days | 49 (2.5) | 547 (1.3) | 3 (1.7) | 121 (1.1) | 46 (2.6) | 426 (1.3) | |||
| Readmission beyond 90 days | 203 (10.3) | 3322 (7.7) | 11 (6.1) | 726 (6.8) | 192 (10.7) | 2596 (8.0) | |||
| Days between discharge from index hospitalisation to readmission in patients who were alive when they were discharged from hospital | |||||||||
| Mean (SD) | 168.1 (234.8) | 244.4 (295.2) | <0.001 | 102.4 (157.2) | 251.6 (304.9) | <0.001 | 173.7 (239.6) | 242.3 (292.3) | <0.001 |
| Median (Q1–Q3) | 81 (25.0–201.5) | 121 (39.0–341.0) | <0.001 | 52 (19.0–121.0) | 117 (38.0–356.0) | <0.001 | 83 (27.0–210.0) | 122 (39.0–338.0) | <0.001 |
CR Carbapenem resistant, CS Carbapenem susceptible, SD Standard deviation, UTI Urinary tract infection
aReadmission: patients with > 1 inpatient encounter were flagged as readmission. Time to readmission was calculated as the number of days from discharge of the index hospitalisation to the first readmission date