Demographics, Epidemiology, Mortality, and Difficult-To-Treat Resistance Patterns of Bacterial Bloodstream Infections in the Global United States Military Health System from 2010-2019: A Retrospective Cohort Study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To describe demographics, causative pathogens, hospitalization, mortality, and antimicrobial resistance of bacterial bloodstream infections (BSIs) among beneficiaries in the global U.S. Military Health System (MHS), a single-provider healthcare system with 10-year longitudinal follow-up.

Design

Retrospective cohort study.

Setting

Clinical and demographic data collected from the MHS Data Repository and collated with microbiological data obtained from the Defense Centers for Public Health-Portsmouth.

Participants

12,748 MHS beneficiaries diagnosed with 15,357 bacterial BSIs (2010-2019).

Main outcomes and measures

Demographic data and diagnosis codes preceding BSI episodes and during hospitalizations were collected. Inpatient admission data identi

SUBMITTER: Vostal AC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11722484 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature