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Table 2 Characteristics of residents with UTIs in long-term care facilities in the control and intervention group

From: Implementation of an antimicrobial stewardship program for urinary tract infections in long-term care facilities: a cluster-controlled intervention study

 

Control

Intervention

p-value

Age (median, range; years)

85 (49–99)

87 (38–102)

0.064

Female residents (%)

71.7

78.9

0.243

Weight (median, range; kg)

66 (38–135)

59 (38–143)

0.014

History of allergy to antiinfectives (%)

5.1

9.5

0.234

Renal impairment (%)

22.2

22.1

0.984

Urologic disease (%)

21.2

22.1

0.880

  1. Bold writing indicates statistically significant results