Table 2.
Characteristics of the hospital stays for vertebral osteomyelitis (VO)
| Native VO | Device-associated VO | Total | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N | %a | N | %a | N | ||
| Hospital stays | 56 428 | 92.7 | 4450 | 7.3 | 60 878 | |
| 2010 | 4175 | 95.3 | 207 | 4.7 | 4382 | |
| 2011 | 4504 | 95.3 | 224 | 4.7 | 4728 | |
| 2012 | 4762 | 94.8 | 260 | 5.2 | 5022 | |
| 2013 | 5123 | 93.9 | 332 | 6.1 | 5455 | |
| 2014 | 5265 | 93.6 | 363 | 6.4 | 5628 | |
| 2015 | 5320 | 92.2 | 452 | 7.8 | 5772 | |
| 2016 | 5973 | 92.1 | 512 | 7.9 | 6485 | |
| 2017 | 6500 | 91.5 | 601 | 8.5 | 7101 | |
| 2018 | 7076 | 90.5 | 742 | 9.5 | 7818 | |
| 2019 | 7730 | 91.1 | 757 | 8.9 | 8487 | |
| N | % b | N | % c | N | %d | |
| Microbiological evidence | 37 647 | 66.7 | 3269 | 73.5 | 40 916 | 67.2 |
| Bacteria | 37 107 | 65.8 | 3241 | 72.8 | 40 348 | 66,3 |
| Polybacteraemia | 6199 | 11.0 | 696 | 15.6 | 6895 | 11,3 |
| Staphylococci | 18 957 | 33.6 | 2447 | 55.0 | 21 404 | 35.2 |
| Gram-negative, bacilli | 9854 | 17.5 | 939 | 21.1 | 10 793 | 17.7 |
| Streptococci | 9025 | 16.0 | 454 | 10.2 | 9479 | 15.6 |
| Tuberculosis | 3936 | 7.0 | 11 | 0.2 | 3947 | 6.5 |
| Resistance | 6970 | 12.4 | 851 | 19.1 | 7821 | 12,8 |
| Severe sepsis | 1973 | 3.5 | 129 | 2.9 | 2102 | 3.5 |
| Intensive care unit | 1265 | 2.2 | 149 | 3.3 | 1414 | 2.3 |
| Reference centre | 17 273 | 30.6 | 2090 | 47.0 | 19 363 | 31.8 |
| Code Z 76 800 | 869 | 1.5 | 404 | 9.1 | 1273 | 2.1 |
| Surgical unit | 13 697 | 24.3 | 3628 | 81.5 | 17 325 | 28.5 |
| Public sector | 49 897 | 88.4 | 3530 | 79.3 | 53 427 | 87.8 |
a
% of all VO of the current year.
b
% of native VO.
c
% of device-associated VO.
d
% of all VO.