Table 1.

Candidemia episodes per admission according to period of hospitalization, COVID-19, and corticosteroid administration.

	Pre-pandemic period (January 2010‒March 2020)			Pandemic period (April 2020‒August 2021)							pa
	Without corticosteroids	With corticosteroids	All patients	Without COVID-19			COVID-19			All patients
				Without corticosteroids	With corticosteroids	All patients	Without corticosteroids	With corticosteroids	All patients
ICU admissions	1337	1896	3233	85	58	143	14	182	196	339
Candidemia episodes	50	117	167	21	17	38	3	73	76	114
Candidemia episodes per 100 admissions	3.7	6.2	5.2	24.7	29.3	26.6	21.4	40.1	38.8	33.6	<0.001
Candidemia episodes per 1000 patient-days	2.6	6.6	4.5	13.0	14.9	13.8	17.4	19.2	19.1	16.9	<0.001
ICU mortality	20.1%	43.0%	30.0%	32.9%	43.1%	37.1%	42.9%	59.3%	58.2%	49.2%	<0.001

^aComparison between pandemic and pre-pandemic period.