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[Method to calculate the additional hospital stay in patients with cross infection]
Ulises Angeles-Garay1, Yesenia Velázquez-Chávez, Fernando Molinar-Ramos
1División de Medicina Preventiva y Epidemiología Hospitalaria, Hospital de Especialidades, Centro Médico Nacional La Raza, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, Distrito Federal, México. ulises.angeles@imss.gob.mx
Objective:
To calculate additional hospital stay due to specific cross infection.
Methods:
Cases and controls study; matched by age +/- 2 years, sex, specialty in which were taken care, diagnosis, surgical procedure and hospitalization stay, between July 2005-June 2006.
Analysis:
t test, chi(2) to calculate death risk, Kaplan-Meier analysis to calculate survival, Hosmer-Lemeshow test to know the contribution of cross infection for additional hospital stay due to cross infection (AHSDCI).
Results:
We identified 851 patients with 1347 cross infection in 16 528 discharges. We could match 677. The cases stayed 25.42 days and the controls 13.29 (p < 0.01). The death risk for the cases was 5.8 (CI 95 % = 3.7-8.6, p < 0.01), four weeks survival 55.3 % for cases and 79.2 % for the controls. The AHSDCI for pneumonia was 10.39 days, urinary-tract-infection 6.28, bacteremia 8.92, vascular-catheter-related infection 3.31, surgical site infections 7.42, and skin and soft-tissue-infection 3.31 (p < 0.05).
Conclusions:
We used a multivariate model fitted to patient's gravity and complexity to extract the proportion days of AHSDCI of each cross infection.
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