Infectious Diseases Consultation Reduces 30-Day and 1-Year All-Cause Mortality for Multidrug-Resistant Organism Infections | Zendy

Jason P. Burnham | Zendy; Margaret A. Olsen | Zendy; Dustin Stwalley | Zendy; Jennie H. Kwon | Zendy; Hilary M. Babcock | Zendy; Marin H. Kollef | Zendy

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Infectious Diseases Consultation Reduces 30-Day and 1-Year All-Cause Mortality for Multidrug-Resistant Organism Infections

Author(s) -

Jason P. Burnham,

Margaret A. Olsen,

Dustin Stwalley,

Jennie H. Kwon,

Hilary M. Babcock,

Marin H. Kollef

Publication year - 2018

Publication title -

open forum infectious diseases

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.546

H-Index - 35

ISSN - 2328-8957

DOI - 10.1093/ofid/ofy026

Subject(s) - medicine , hazard ratio , confidence interval , proportional hazards model , retrospective cohort study

ID consultation was associated with significant reductions in 30-day and 1-year mortality for resistant and , and 30-day mortality for polymicrobial infections. There was no association between ID consultation and mortality for patients with resistant , , or , possibly due to small sample sizes. Our results suggest that ID consultation may be beneficial for patients with some MDRO infections.

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