Associations between neighbourhood-level median household income and outpatients' risk of antibiotic non-susceptible uropathogens in a major urban centre, USA.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Resistance to first-line antibiotics among urinary tract infections continues to rise, but how neighbourhood-level socioeconomic status impacts this risk remains unclear. We examined the effect of neighbourhood-level income on a patient's risk of having a uropathogen non-susceptible to trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole (TMP/SMX) or nitrofurantoin.

Methods

We used electronic health record data and antibiotic susceptibility test results for urinary Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae collected at Emory Healthcare outpatient facilities in greater Atlanta between October 2022 and September 2023. We determined patients' block group median household income (MHI) using their residential addresses and 2017-21 US census data. We performed a logistic regr

SUBMITTER: Mwansa CML 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11535660 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature