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Table 1 Patient characteristics

From: Patterns of multidrug resistant organism acquisition in an adult specialist burns service: a retrospective review

 

All patients (n = 2036)

No MDRO (n = 1806)

Any MDRO (n = 230)

p-value

Age, median (IQR) years

41 (28, 57)

40 (27, 56)

49 (33, 65)

 < 0.001

Male

1497 (73.5%)

1338 (74.1%)

159 (69.1%)

0.11

TBSA, median (IQR) %

4.0 (2.0, 10.0)

4.0 (1.5, 8.0)

14.0 (6.0, 30.0)

 < 0.001

Major burn injury

203 (10.1%)

115 (6.4%)

88 (38.6%)

 < 0.001

Flame burn

1213 (59.6%)

1060 (58.7%)

153 (66.5%)

0.023

Unintentional injury

1889 (93.1%)

1685 (93.7%)

204 (88.7%)

0.005

Procedure in theatre

1430 (70.5%)

1208 (67.1%)

222 (97.8%)

 < 0.001

Discharged to other hospital

890 (43.7%)

715 (39.6%)

175 (76.1%)

 < 0.001

LOS, median (IQR) days

7.4 (3.1, 13.7)

6.5 (2.8, 11.5)

27.9 (14.9, 51.1)

 < 0.001

  1. Data presented as frequency (percentage) unless otherwise specified
  2. IQR interquartile range; MDRO multi-drug resistant organism; LOS length of stay; TBSA total body surface area
  3. p-value relates to comparisons between patients who did and did not develop an MDRO