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Volume 17, Number 6—June 2011
CME ACTIVITY - Research

Cefepime-Resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Ehimare Akhabue, Marie Synnestvedt, Mark G. Weiner, Warren B. Bilker, and Ebbing LautenbachComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Author affiliation: University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

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Table 3

Multivariable model of association between infection with cefepime-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa and death, Philadelphia, PA, USA, 2001–2006*

Variable Adjusted OR (95% CI) p value
Cefepime-resistant organism 1.28 (0.86–1.90) 0.232
Patient in ICU at time of culture 2.33 (1.75–3.10) <0.001
APR-DRG 11.29 (6.53–19.50) <0.001
Patient transfer from outside hospital 1.38 (1.05–1.81) 0.021
Length of hospital stay before culture 0.99 (0.98–1.00) 0.231

*OR, odds ratio; CI, confidence interval; ICU, intensive care unit; APR-DRG, all-patient refined-diagnosis–related group.

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