Derivation and validation of a simple score to predict the presence of bacteria requiring carbapenem treatment in ICU-acquired bloodstream infection and pneumonia: CarbaSCORE.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The recommendations of learned societies mention risk factors for the presence of multidrug resistant bacteria in hospital-acquired infections, but they do not propose a scoring system to guide empiric antibiotic therapy. Our study was aimed at developing a simple score for predicting "the presence of bacteria requiring carbapenem treatment" in ICU-acquired bloodstream infection and pneumonia.

Methods

Between December 2011 and January 2015, we conducted a retrospective study using a prospectively collected French database of nosocomial infections in the polyvalent intensive care unit of a French university hospital. All patients with ICU-acquired bloodstream infection or pneumonia were included in the study. Bivariate and multivariate analyses were performed to de

SUBMITTER: Teysseyre L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6528287 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature