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Table 1 Characteristics of surgical and non-surgical patients, Serbian PPS study, 2017

From: A nationwide assessment of the burden of healthcare-associated infections and antimicrobial use among surgical patients: results from Serbian point prevalence survey, 2017

 

Surgical patients N = 8852

Non-surgical patients N = 3626

p value*

N (%)

N (%)

Intrinsic factors

 Sex

  

< 0.0001

  Female

4610 (52.1)

2024 (55.8)

 

  Male

4242 (47.9)

1602 (44.2)

 Age group

  

< 0.0001

  < 40 years

1171 (13.2)

792 (21.8)

 

  40–59

1921 (21.7)

844 (23.3)

  60–79

4703 (53.1)

1683 (46.4)

  > 80

1057 (11.9)

307 (8.5)

 McCabe classification

  

< 0.0001

  Nonfatal

6831 (77.2)

2913 (80.3)

 

  Fatal within 5 years

517 (5.8)

178 (4.9)

  Fatal within 1 year

1205 (13.6)

485 (13.4)

  Unknown

299 (3.4)

50 (1.4)

Extrinsic factors

 Invasive devices

  Urinary catheter

1591 (18.0)

1287 (35.5)

< 0.0001

  Central venous catheter

254 (2.9)

378 (10.4)

< 0.0001

  Mechanical ventilation

127 (1.4)

141 (3.9)

< 0.0001

  Exposure to intensive care

283 (3.2)

238 (6.6)

< 0.0001

  Prior antibiotics therapy

2850 (32.2)

2435 (67.2)

< 0.0001

Hospital factors

 Level of hospital health care

  

< 0.0001

  Secondary

4845 (54.7)

1631 (45.0)

 

  Tertiary

4007 (45.3)

1995 (55.0)

 Hospital size

  

< 0.0001

  Small (< 360 beds)

2214 (25.0)

710 (19.6)

 

  Medium (360–575)

2371 (26.8)

918 (25.3)

  Large (575–1100)

2161 (24.4)

849 (23.4)

  Very large (> 1100)

2106 (23.8)

1149 (31.7)

  1. *Chi-square or Fisher exact test, if appropriate