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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Oct 19.
Published in final edited form as: Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2018 Sep 18;39(11):1301–1306. doi: 10.1017/ice.2018.215

Table 2.

Baseline Demographic and Transplant Characteristics of the Study Population in the Preintervention (April 2015 to October 2015) and Postintervention (December 2015 to November 2016) Study Periodsa

Variable Preintervention Postintervention P Value
Sex .8023
 Male 93 (42.86) 159 (43.92)
 Female 124 (57.14) 203 (56.08)
Age (mean, SD) 52.77 (13.77) 54.78 (13.40) .085
HCT type (no., %) .0271
 Allogenic 109 (50.23) 199 (54.97)
 Autologous 97 (44.7) 128 (35.36)
 Cord blood 9 (4.15) 32 (8.84)
 None 2 (0.92) 3 (0.83)
Time in days from HCT to before or after admission (median, SD) 6 (150) 6 (149) .2932
LOS (median, SD) 24.33 (12.59) 29.48 (16.41) < .0001

Note. LOS, length of hospital stay; HCT, hematopoietic stem cell transplant; SD, standard deviation.

a

First visit for patients with >1 visit. Does not include patient admissions during washout period of November 2015.