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[Two first years' bacteremia incidence and impact in a new hospital]
Ricardo Bou1, Javier Perpiñán, Pilar Ramos
1Unidad de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Hospital de la Ribera, Alzira, Valencia, España. Rbou@Hospital-Ribera.com
Background And Objective:
We pursued here to determine the incidence of blood-stream infections.
Patients And Method:
Longitudinal descriptive study. All patients admitted to hospital from January 1999 to December 2000 were included. Blood-stream infection episodes were defined according to CDC criteria. Blood-stream infection prevalence and incidence density (ID), nosocomial primary blood-stream infection attributable to intravascular devices intravascular devices and population attributable fraction were estimated.
Results:
Overall blood-stream infection ID was 1.3 por 1,000 patient-years. Nosocomial blood-stream infection represented 1.1 per 1,000 patient-days. Nosocomial primary blood-stream infection attributable risk was 54.3%, population attributable risk was 49.8% and population attributable fraction was 86.6%.
Conclusions:
The incidence of blood-stream infection was similar to that reported by other centers. The impact of intravascular devices on nosocomial blood-stream infections in our hospital was high