Early coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic effects on individual-level risk for healthcare-associated infections in hospitalized patients.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

We compared the individual-level risk of hospital-onset infections with multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) in hospitalized patients prior to and during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. We also quantified the effects of COVID-19 diagnoses and intrahospital COVID-19 burden on subsequent MDRO infection risk.

Design

Multicenter, retrospective, cohort study.

Setting

Patient admission and clinical data were collected from 4 hospitals in the St. Louis area.

Patients

Data were collected for patients admitted between January 2017 and August 2020, discharged no later than September 2020, and hospitalized ≥48 hours.

Methods

Mixed-effects logistic regression models were fit to the data to estimate patients' individual-level risk of infe

SUBMITTER: Farthing TS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10755158 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature