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Table 3 Number of intra-hospital patient transfers for medical, surgical and hematological patients

From: The effect of 100% single-occupancy rooms on acquisition of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing Enterobacterales and intra-hospital patient transfers: a prospective before-and-after study

 

Medical

Surgical

Hematological

Old building (n = 34)

New building (n = 79)

P-value

Old building (n = 161)

New building (n = 187)

P-value

Old building (n = 30)

New building (n = 106)

P-value

Not transferred

22 (64.7)

70 (88.6)

 

127 (78.9)

152 (81.3)

 

20 (66.7)

98 (92.5)

 

Transferred

12 (35.3)

9 (11.4)

0.003

34 (21.1)

35 (18.7)

0.575

10 (33.3)

8 (7.5)

 < 0.001

1

8 (23.5)

6 (7.6)

0.018

29 (18.0)

21 (11.2)

0.072

5 (16.7)

7 (6.6)

0.086

 ≥ 2

4 (11.8)

3 (3.8)

NA

5 (3.1)

14 (7.5)

0.073

5 (16.7)

1 (0.9)

NA

  1. OR odds ratio, 95% CI 95% confidence interval, ESBL-E extended-spectrum beta-lactamase producing Enterobacterales NA not applicable, P-values could not be calculated due to observed and expected values below 5 for one or both groups. P-values in bold are significant 
  2. aInformation about the overall number of patients positive for ESBL-E at admission and discharge, and patients who acquired an ESBL-E during hospitalization can be found in Table 2