Introduction
Methods
Statistical analysis
Results
Variables | No. of patients |
---|---|
Age (years) | 68 (55–79) |
Gender | |
Male | 282 (55.5%) |
Female | 226 (44.5%) |
Consultation places | |
General wards (1069 beds) | 368 (72.4%) |
Intensive care unit (28 beds) | 101 (19.9%) |
Outpatients/Emergency rooms | 39 (7.7%) |
Consult reasons | |
Diagnosis | 77 (15.2%) |
Treatment | 393 (77.4%) |
Infection control | 28 (5.5%) |
Surgical antimicrobial prophylaxis | 10 (1.9%) |
Specialty | |
Internal medicine | 201 (39.6%) |
(Cardiology, Diabetes and endocrinology, Gastroenterology, Hematology, Nephrology, Neurology, Respiratory, and Rheumatology) | |
Non- Internal medicine | 307 (60.4%) |
(Cardiovascular surgery, Dermatology, Emergency Medicine, ENT, Gynecology, Neurosurgery, Orthopedic surgery, Psychiatry, Pediatrics, Plastic surgery, Surgery, Thoracic surgery, and Urology) | |
Bacteremia | 155/470 (33.0%) |
30-day mortality | 19/470 (3.8%) |
Hospital departments | No. of patients |
---|---|
Surgery | 102 (20.1%) |
Respiratory | 41 (8.1%) |
Plastic surgery | 35 (6.7%) |
Orthopedic surgery | 34 (6.7%) |
Emergency Medicine | 32 (6.3%) |
Cardiovascular surgery | 32 (6.3%) |
Neurology | 29 (5.7%) |
Gastroenterology | 28 (5.5%) |
Hematology | 26 (5.1%) |
Nephrology | 24 (4.7%) |
Dermatology | 22 (4.3%) |
Gynecology | 21 (4.1%) |
Neurosurgery | 20 (3.9%) |
Cardiology | 13 (2.6%) |
Diabetes and endocrinology | 13 (2.6%) |
Rheumatology | 11 (2.2%) |
Psychiatry | 11 (2.2%) |
ENT | 7 (1.4%) |
Others | 7 (1.4%) |
Total | 508 (100%) |
Variables | No. of patients |
---|---|
Intra-abdominal infections | 81 (16.0%) |
Respiratory infections | 62 (12.2%) |
Skin and soft tissue infections | 59 (11.6%) |
Genitourinary infections | 48 (9.4%) |
Bone/Joint infections | 46 (9.1%) |
Non-infectious diseases | 37 (7.5%) |
Bacteremia | 31 (6.1%) |
Infection control | 28 (5.5%) |
Cardiovascular infections | 20 (3.9%) |
CNS infections | 18 (3.5%) |
CRBSI | 15 (3.0%) |
Hepatobiliary tract infections | 15 (3.0%) |
Surgical antimicrobial prophylaxis | 9 (1.7%) |
Febrile neutropenia | 8 (1.6%) |
HEENT infections | 7 (1.3%) |
Unknown | 5 (0.9%) |
Others | 19 (3.7%) |
Total | 508 (100%) |
Variables | Internal medicine (n = 178) (%) | Non-internal medicine (n = 292) (%) | P-value |
---|---|---|---|
Setting | |||
General wards | 135 (75.8) | 208 (71.2) | |
Intensive care unit | 30 (16.9) | 64 (21.9) | 0.412 |
Outpatients/Emergency rooms | 13 (7.3) | 20 (6.9) | |
Bacteremia cases | 67 (37.6) | 88 (30.4) | 0.0945 |
Consultation request | |||
Diagnosis and management | 37 (20.8) | 40 (13.7) | 0.0463 |
Treatment of established infections | 141 (79.2) | 252 (86.3) | |
Final diagnosis | |||
Infectious diseases | 157 (88.2) | 276 (94.5) | 0.0153 |
Non-infectious diseases | 21 (11.8) | 16 (5.5) |