Table 3 Microbiology test ordering practices
From: Use of microbiology tests in the era of increasing AMR rates– a multicentre hospital cohort study
Microbiology test | ||||||||||
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Blood culture | Urine culture | SST culture1 | Resp. test2 | |||||||
Diagnosis* | Hospital | % | p3 | % | p3 | % | p3 | % | p3 | |
Sepsis | Hospital A | n = 205 | 95.1 | 0.64 | 70.2 | 0.02 | 10.7 | < 0.01 | 60.0 | < 0.01 |
Hospital B | n = 42 | 88.1 | 0.06 | 76.2 | 0.81 | 2.4 | 0.34 | 78.6 | < 0.01 | |
Hospital C | n = 73 | 97.3 | 0.38 | 86.3 | 0.01 | 1.4 | 0.02 | 17.8 | < 0.01 | |
Total | n = 320 | 94.7 | 74.7 | 52.8 | 7.5 | |||||
UTI | Hospital A | n = 67 | 59.7 | 0.77 | 91.0 | 0.64 | 3.0 | 0.27 | 31.3 | 0.02 |
Hospital B | n = 50 | 70.0 | 0.05 | 90.0 | 0.54 | 2.0 | 1.00 | 36.0 | < 0.01 | |
Hospital C | n = 77 | 49.4 | 0.04 | 94.8 | 0.28 | 0.0 | 0.28 | 3.9 | < 0.01 | |
Total | n = 194 | 58.2 | 92.3 | 1.5 | 21.6 | |||||
SSTI | Hospital A | n = 97 | 80.4 | 0.97 | 14.4 | < 0,01 | 68.0 | < 0.01 | 8.2 | 0.66 |
Hospital B | n = 54 | 79.6 | 0.89 | 13.0 | 0.04 | 44.4 | 0.16 | 11.1 | 0.22 | |
Hospital C | n = 52 | 80.8 | 0.92 | 50.0 | < 0,01 | 32.7 | < 0.01 | 1.9 | 0.12 | |
Total | n = 203 | 80.3 | 23.2 | 52.7 | 7.4 | |||||
LRTI | Hospital A | n = 287 | 80.8 | 0.07 | 48.4 | 0.73 | 1.0 | 0.51 | 68.3 | < 0.01 |
Hospital B | n = 164 | 75.0 | 0.36 | 40.2 | 0.01 | 1.8 | 0.71 | 89.0 | < 0.01 | |
Hospital C | n = 155 | 74.2 | 0.25 | 60.0 | < 0,01 | 1.9 | 0.70 | 20.0 | < 0.01 | |
Total | n = 606 | 77.6 | 49.2 | 1.5 | 61.6 | |||||
AECOPD | Hospital A | n = 172 | 74.4 | < 0.01 | 38.4 | 0.42 | 2.3 | 0.46 | 59.3 | 0.29 |
Hospital B | n = 152 | 57.9 | 0.01 | 33.6 | 0.02 | 1.3 | 1.00 | 92.1 | < 0.01 | |
Hospital C | n = 84 | 63.1 | 0.54 | 58.3 | < 0.01 | 1.2 | 1.00 | 14.3 | < 0.01 | |
Total | n = 408 | 65.9 | 40.7 | 1.7 | 62.3 | |||||
All | Total | n = 1731 | 76.1 | 53.7 | 8.7 | 49.3 | ||||