The association between culture positivity and long-term mortality in critically ill surgical patients.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The long-term outcome is an essential issue in critically ill patients, and the identification of early determinant is needed for risk stratification of the long-term outcome. In the present study, we investigate the association between culture positivity during admission and long-term outcome in critically ill surgical patients.

Methods

We linked the 2015-2019 critical care database at Taichung Veterans General Hospital with the nationwide death registration files in Taiwan. We described the long-term mortality and proportion of culture positivity among enrolled subjects. We used a log-rank test to estimate survival curves between patients with and without positive cultures and a multivariable Cox proportional hazards regression model to determine hazard ratio (H

SUBMITTER: Wu YC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8546784 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature