作者
Nan-Yao Lee, Hsin-Chun Lee, Nai-Ying Ko, Chia-Ming Chang, Hsin-I Shih, Chi-Jung Wu, Wen-Chien Ko
发表日期
2007/6
期刊
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology
卷号
28
期号
6
页码范围
713-719
出版商
Cambridge University Press
简介
Objective
To investigate the impact of antimicrobial resistance on clinical and economic outcomes among hospitalized patients with multidrug-resistant (MDR) Acinetobacter baumannii bacteremia.
Design
A retrospective, matched-cohort study.
Setting
A tertiary care university teaching hospitalMethods.A matched case-control (1:1) study was conducted to compare the differences in clinical and economic outcomes of patients with MDR A. baumannii bacteremia and patients with non-MDR A. baumannii bacteremia. Case patients were matched to control patients on the basis of sex, age, severity of underlying and acute illness, and length of hospital stay before onset of bacteremia.
Results
Forty-six (95.8%) of 48 cases with MDR A. baumannii bacteremia were eligible for the study and matched with appropriate controls. The sepsis-related mortality rate was 34.8% among cases and 13.0% among controls, for an …
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