Risk factors and mortality of carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae bloodstream infection in a tertiary-care hospital in China: an eight-year retrospective study

Table 5 Multivariate analysis of factors for 28-day mortality in patients with infections caused by CRKP-BSI

Variable	P value	OR	95% CI
Congestive heart failure	0.151	7.576	0.479–119.913
Intensive care units acquired infection	0.083	3.774	0.840–16.969
Blood purification^b	0.384	2.893	0.265–31.623
Mechanical ventilation^c	0.298	2.457	0.452–13.344
Corticosteroids use preceding infection onset^b	0.037	6.451	1.122–37.081
Inadequate empirical antibiotic therapy	< 0.001	15.006	3.704–60.786
APACHE II score > 15	0.294	2.189	0.506–9.464
Severe sepsis/septic shock	0.006	8.435	1.854–38.385
Combination with high doses of carbapenem	0.004	0.114	0.026–0.508

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