Volume 22, Number 10—October 2016
Research
Community- and Healthcare-Associated Clostridium difficile Infections, Finland, 2008−20131
Table 2
Thirty-day case-fatality rates for patients with community-associated and healthcare-associated Clostridium difficile infections, by age and sex, Finland, 2008–2013*
Age, y | Community-associated |
Healthcare-associated |
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Female sex |
Male sex |
p value | Female sex |
Male sex |
p value | ||||||||
CFR, % (no.) | No. episodes | CFR, % (no.) | No. episodes | CFR, % (no.) | No. episodes | CFR, % (no.) | No. episodes | ||||||
1–14 | 0.4 (1) | 252 | 0.0 (0) | 248 | 1.0 | 0.8 (1) | 126 | 3.3 (5) | 152 | 0.2 | |||
15–44 | 0.1 (1) | 1,551 | 0.1 (1) | 886 | 1.0 | 2.1 (12) | 578 | 3.2 (17) | 533 | 0.3 | |||
45–64 | 0.9 (15) | 1,655 | 2.5 (30) | 1,188 | 0.001 | 7.0 (106) | 1,524 | 8.6 (177) | 2,047 | 0.07 | |||
65–74 | 2.6 (25) | 950 | 4.0 (30) | 755 | 0.1 | 7.9 (152) | 1,917 | 13.0 (291) | 2,232 | <0.001 | |||
75–84 | 4.8 (57) | 1,195 | 6.2 (42) | 680 | 0.2 | 13.3 (574) | 4,325 | 16.5 (518) | 3,140 | <0.001 | |||
>84 | 10.7 (101) | 944 | 9.7 (33) | 339 | 0.7 | 17.9 (758) | 4,224 | 23.9 (371) | 1,550 | <0.001 | |||
All | 3.1 (200) | 6,547 | 3.3 (136) | 4,096 | 0.5 | 12.6 (1,603) | 12,694 | 14.3 (1,379) | 9,654 | <0.001 |
*Values in parentheses are total no. deaths in category. CFR, case-fatality rate.
1Preliminary results from this study were presented as a poster at the 3rd International Conference on Prevention and Infection Control; June 16−19, 2015; Geneva, Switzerland.