Volume 12, Number 12—December 2006
Dispatch
Community-associated Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and Healthcare Risk Factors
Table 1
Characteristic | With HRFs, no. (%) | Without HRFs, no. (%) | |
---|---|---|---|
Healthcare-associated, n = 2,535 | Healthcare-associated, community onset, n = 5,353 | Community-associated,† n = 1,259 | |
Median age, y | 62‡ | 62‡ | 46 |
Pneumonia | 413 (16.3) | 685 (12.8)‡ | 190 (15.1) |
Endocarditis | 72 (2.8)‡ | 345 (6.4)‡ | 158 (12.6) |
Died | 687 (27.1)‡ | 845 (15.8)‡ | 131 (10.4)
*MRSA, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus; HRFs, healthcare-related risk factors. |
*MRSA, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus; HRFs, healthcare-related risk factors.
†Patients with community-associated infections were those who did not have HRFs; these patients were used as reference.
‡p<0.05 for χ2 test for categorical variables; Wilcoxon rank sum for age.
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