Predicting Carbapenem-Resistant <i>Enterobacteriaceae</i> Carriage at the Time of Admission Using a Statewide Hospital Discharge Database.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Timely identification of patients likely to harbor carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) can help health care facilities provide effective infection control and treatment. We evaluated whether a model utilizing prior health care information from a state hospital discharge database could predict a patient's probability of CRE colonization at the time of hospital admission.

Methods

We performed a case-control study using the Illinois hospital discharge database. From a 2014-2015 patient cohort, we defined cases as index adult patient hospital encounters with a positive CRE culture collected within the first 3 days of hospitalization, as reported to the Illinois XDRO registry; controls were all patient admissions from the same hospital and month. We sp

SUBMITTER: Lin MY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7047960 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature