Antimicrobial Stewardship & Healthcare Epidemiology (Jan 2023)

Stratifying nursing home care to further explore a locally validated risk factor for community-acquired pneumonia (SNAP-CAP Study)

  • Dennis Kutsar,
  • Nirvana Awad,
  • Rupangi Rastogi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1017/ash.2023.466
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3

Abstract

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We observed that patients admitted to our hospital from a prestratified group of congregated living facilities had a numerically higher percentage of study-defined resistant organisms in sputum cultures compared to facilities without these characteristics [89.4% vs 78.3%, odds ratio [OR] = 2.34 (95% CI, 0.73–7.58)].