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Table 1 Individual and community-level characteristics of patients with ceftriaxone-susceptible and resistant urinary Escherichia coli isolates

From: Individual and community predictors of urinary ceftriaxone-resistant Escherichia coli isolates, Victoria, Australia

Characteristic

Escherichia coli isolates

Ceftriaxone susceptible

Ceftriaxone resistant

N = 6350

N = 382

Patient-level characteristics

 Sex

  Female

5677 (89.4%)

331 (86.6%)

  Male

673 (10.6%)

51 (13.4%)

 Age group

  Median (IQR)

56 (32–74)

58 (31–75)

  Age 12 or less

394 (6.2%)

22 (5.8%)

  Not available

3 (0%)

0

 Residence in RACF

  No

6060 (95.4%)

337 (88.2%)

  Yes

290 (4.6%)

45 (11.8%)

 Referral source

  Community

5763 (90.8%)

332 (86.9%)

  Hospital: ED

343 (5.4%)

15 (3.9%)

  Hospital: non-ED

244 (3.8%)

35 (9.2%)

Postcode-level characteristics

 Region

  Northern Metropolitan

613 (9.7%)

59 (15.4%)

  Eastern Metropolitan

663 (10.4%)

47 (12.3%)

  South-Eastern Metropolitan

911 (14.3%)

70 (18.3%)

  Southern Metropolitan

632 (10%)

28 (7.3%)

  Western Metropolitan

904 (14.2%)

78 (20.4%)

  Northern Victoria

735 (11.6%)

28 (7.3%)

  Eastern Victoria

922 (14.5%)

51 (13.4%)

  Western Victoria

264 (4.2%)

6 (1.6%)

  Other

699 (11%)

15 (3.9%)

  Not available

7 (0.1%)

0

 Remoteness area

  Major Cities

4989 (67.5%)

333 (78.4%)

  Inner Regional

1865 (25.2%)

72 (16.9%)

  Outer Regional

509 (6.9%)

20 (4.7%)

  Remote

26 (0.4%)

0

  Very Remote

4 (0.1%)

0

 Index of Relative Socio-economic Disadvantage, decilea

  1

542 (8.5%)

49 (12.8%)

  2

345 (5.4%)

11 (2.9%)

  3

448 (7.1%)

24 (6.3%)

  4

582 (9.2%)

33 (8.6%)

  5

613 (9.7%)

36 (9.4%)

  6

746 (11.7%)

58 (15.2%)

  7

695 (10.9%)

42 (11%)

  8

846 (13.3%)

44 (11.5%)

  9

945 (14.9%)

52 (13.6%)

  10

568 (8.9%)

32 (8.4%)

  Not available

20 (0.3%)

1 (0.3%)

 Percentage of postcode residents born in region, median (IQR)

  Oceania and Antarctica

70.1 (58.0–78.3)

62.9 (53.7–74.4)

  North-West Europe

4.5 (3.2–6.6)

4.0 (2.4–6.0)

  Southern and Eastern Europe

2.4 (1.2–4.3)

2.8 (1.6–5.8)

  North Africa and the Middle East

0.7 (0.2–1.3)

1.0 (0.5–1.7)

  South-East Asia

2.7 (1.0–5.3)

3.6 (1.7–7.1)

  North-East Asia

1.5 (0.5–3.9)

1.8 (0.7–4.4)

  Southern and Central Asia

2.9 (0.8–7.1)

4.6 (1.5–8.6)

  Americas

0.5 (0.4–0.7)

0.5 (0.4–0.7)

  Sub-Saharan Africa

0.6 (0.3–1.0)

0.6 (0.4–1.0)

  Not available

9.3 (7.4–11.0)

9.6 (7.7–11.6)

  1. ED, Emergency department; IQR, interquartile range; RACF, residential aged-care facility. aThe 1st decile represents the most disadvantaged group