Culture positivity may correlate with long-term mortality in critically ill patients.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The long-term outcome is currently a crucial issue in critical care, and we aim to address the association between culture positivity and long-term mortality in critically ill patients.

Methods

We used the 2015-2019 critical care database at Taichung Veterans General Hospital and Taiwanese nationwide death registration files. Multivariable Cox proportional hazards regression model was conducted to determine hazard ratio (HR) and 95% confidence interval (CI).

Results

We enrolled 4488 critically ill patients, and the overall mortality was 55.2%. The follow-up duration among survivors was 2.2 ± 1.3 years. We found that 52.6% (2362/4488) of critically ill patients had at least one positive culture during the admission, and the number of patients with positive c

SUBMITTER: Ou WF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8620521 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature