TABLE 1.
Characteristic | Value (n = 120)a |
---|---|
Median age at culture (IQRb) | 61 (51–70) |
Gender | |
Male | 72 (60) |
Female | 48 (40) |
Race | |
White | 74 (62) |
Black | 33 (28) |
Other | 7 (6) |
Unknown | 6 (5) |
Median CCI (IQR)c | 3 (1–4) |
Median Pitt bacteremia score (IQR)d | 3 (2–6) |
Admission type | |
Admission from home | 37 (31) |
Transfer from other hospital | 21 (18) |
Transfer from long-term chronic care facility | 49 (41) |
Transfer from long-term acute care | 13 (11) |
Study site | |
Cleveland Clinic Foundation | 66 (55) |
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | 3 (3) |
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center | 27 (23) |
University of Texas Hospitals | 24 (20) |
Culture | |
Respiratory infection | 33 (28) |
Respiratory colonization | 23 (19) |
Wound infection | 20 (17) |
Wound colonization | 23 (19) |
Blood infection | 9 (8) |
Urine infection | 3 (3) |
Urine colonization | 6 (5) |
Other colonization | 2 (2) |
Nonwound abdominal infection | 1 (1) |
DOOR category at 30 dayse | |
Alive without events | 53 (44) |
Aline with one event | 23 (19) |
Alive with two or three events | 15 (13) |
Dead | 29 (24) |
DOOR event at 30 days | |
Dead or discharged to hospice | 24 (20) |
No clinical response | 41 (34) |
Renal failure | 8 (7) |
C. difficile infection | 3 (3) |
Mortality | |
30 days | 29 (24) |
90 days | 32 (27) |
Mortality among subjects with infection | |
30 days | 17 (26) |
90 days | 17 (26) |
Readmission at 90 days | 51 (54) |
Readmission at 90 days among subjects with infection | 25 (38) |
Data are number (%) unless stated otherwise.
IQR, interquartile range.
Charlson comorbidity index (CCI) is a chronic comorbidity score with a range from 0 to 37, with higher scores indicating more comorbid conditions present. A patient with a score of 3 could have three level 1 comorbid conditions (e.g., dementia, chronic pulmonary disease, and congestive heart failure), one level 1 condition (e.g., dementia) and one level 2 condition (e.g., leukemia), or one level 3 condition (moderate or severe liver disease).
Pitt bacteremia score is an acute severity of illness score. Higher scores indicate more severe illness. A patient with a score of 3 would have one level 1 marker of acute illness (e.g., disoriented mental state) and one level 2 marker (e.g., hypotension).
DOOR (desirability of outcome ranking) analysis components are defined in Materials and Methods.