Healthcare-associated infections and antimicrobial use in acute care hospitals in Greece, 2022; results of the third point prevalence survey

Table 3 Results from the multivariable linear regression analysis of hospital factors associated with antimicrobial use (AU) and healthcare-associated infections (HAI).

Variables	AU prevalence (per 1% increase)			HAI prevalence (per 1% increase)
Variables	β coefficient	SE	p-value	β coefficient	SE	p-value
Hospital size (total beds)	0.003	0.014	0.825	0.008	0.004	0.060
Bed occupancy, %	-0.225	0.158	0.163	0.107	0.046	0.027
Total beds per 1 ID doctor	-	-	-	0.002	0.005	0.617
Current surgical patients per total inpatients, %	0.216	0.142	0.135	-	-	-
Hospital type¹ (secondary)	19.980	7.838	0.014	-	-	-
Hospital type¹ (tertiary)	12.168	8.726	0.170	-	-	-

¹peadiatric hospitals were used as the reference category for hospital type
AU, antimicrobial use; HAI, healthcare-associated infections; ID, infectious disease; SE, standard error

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