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Table 1 Demographics and clinical characteristics of surgical site infections (SSIs) in 4 MNGHA hospitals in Saudi Arabia (2007–2016)

From: High contribution and impact of resistant gram negative pathogens causing surgical site infections at a multi-hospital healthcare system in Saudi Arabia, 2007–2016

 

CSEC

(N = 141)

COLO

(N = 22)

CBGB

(N = 153)

CHOL

(N = 19)

HER

(N = 16)

KPRO

(N = 19)

Others

(N = 33)

Total

(N = 403)

Eligibility

 Procedures surveyeda

12,002 (53.9%)

181 (0.8%)

2409 (10.8%)

2696 (12.1%)

1613 (7.3%)

1312 (5.9%)

2035 (9.1%)

22,248 (100.0%)

 SSI events detecteda

232 (38.5%)

28 (4.7%)

208 (34.6%)

29 (4.8%)

31 (5.1%)

31 (5.1%)

43 (7.1%)

602 (100.0%)

 SSI proportion

232 (1.9%)

28 (15.5%)

208 (8.6%)

29 (1.1%)

31 (1.9%)

31 (2.4%)

43 (2.1%)

602 (2.7%)

 Included procedures

141 (60.8%)

22 (78.6%)

153 (73.6%)

19 (65.5%)

16 (51.6%)

19 (61.3%)

33 (76.7%)

403 (66.9%)

 Included specimensa

160 (32.5%)

29 (5.9%)

194 (39.4%)

28 (5.7%)

21 (4.3%)

22 (4.5%)

38 (7.7%)

492 (100.0%)

Hospital facilitya

 KAMC-Riyadh

9 (5.0%)

22 (12.3%)

131 (73.2%)

1 (0.6%)

3 (1.7%)

1 (0.6%)

12 (6.7%)

179 (100.0%)

 KAMC-Jeddah

76 (51.4%)

0 (0.0%)

22 (14.9%)

13 (8.8%)

10 (6.8%)

13 (8.8%)

14 (9.5%)

148 (100.0%)

 KAH-Al hasa

15 (75.0%)

0 (0.0%)

0 (0.0%)

0 (0.0%)

0 (0.0%)

0 (0.0%)

5 (25.0%)

20 (100.0%)

 IAFH-Dammam

41 (73.2%)

0 (0.0%)

0 (0.0%)

5 (8.9%)

3 (5.4%)

5 (8.9%)

2 (3.6%)

56 (100.0%)

Age, mean ± SDb

31.2 ± 6.5

52.1 ± 18.0

63.9 ± 8.7

49.2 ± 15.1

51.0 ± 16.1

64.7 ± 11.4

50.9 ± 19.4

49.5 ± 18.0

Genderb

 Male

0 (0.0%)

12 (54.5%)

78 (52.0%)

5 (26.3%)

4 (25.0%)

8 (42.1%)

13 (39.4%)

120 (30.0%)

 Female

141 (100.0%)

10 (45.5%)

72 (48.0%)

14 (73.7%)

12 (75.0%)

11 (57.9%)

20 (60.6%)

280 (70.0%)

Admission

 ICU

3 (2.1%)

6 (27.3%)

153 (100.0%)

1 (5.3%)

0 (0.0%)

0 (0.0%)

5 (15.2%)

168 (41.7%)

 Wards

138 (97.9%)

16 (72.7%)

0 (0.0%)

18 (94.7%)

16 (100.0%)

19 (100.0%)

28 (84.8%)

235 (58.3%)

Wound class

 Clean

47 (33.3%)

0 (0.0%)

153 (100.0%)

0 (0.0%)

11 (68.8%)

19 (100.0%)

24 (72.7%)

254 (63.0%)

 Non-clean

94 (66.7%)

22 (100.0%)

0 (0.0%)

19 (100.0%)

5 (31.3%)

0 (0.0%)

9 (27.3%)

149 (37.0%)

SSI type

 Superficial

115 (87.8%)

6 (27.3%)

117 (76.5%)

9 (81.8%)

8 (72.7%)

9 (56.3%)

20 (62.5%)

284 (75.5%)

 Deep

14 (10.7%)

11 (50.0%)

32 (20.9%)

0 (0.0%)

3 (27.3%)

3 (18.8%)

10 (31.3%)

73 (19.4%)

 Organ/space

2 (1.5%)

5 (22.7%)

4 (2.6%)

2 (18.2%)

0 (0.0%)

4 (25.0%)

2 (6.3%)

19 (5.1%)

Diagnosis time

 Before discharge

12 (9.7%)

13 (76.5%)

60 (40.5%)

9 (52.9%)

2 (12.5%)

3 (25.0%)

12 (40.0%)

111 (30.5%)

 After discharge

81 (65.3%)

3 (17.6%)

69 (46.6%)

8 (47.1%)

10 (62.5%)

4 (33.3%)

15 (50.0%)

190 (52.2%)

 On readmission

31 (25.0%)

1 (5.9%)

19 (12.8%)

0 (0.0%)

4 (25.0%)

5 (41.7%)

3 (10.0%)

63 (17.3%)

Hospital death

 No

101 (100.0%)

11 (61.1%)

116 (90.6%)

15 (100.0%)

13 (100.0%)

14 (100.0%)

29 (96.7%)

299 (93.7%)

 Yes

0 (0.0%)

7 (38.9%)

12 (9.4%)

0 (0.0%)

0 (0.0%)

0 (0.0%)

1 (3.3%)

20 (6.3%)

  1. Others, procedures with ≤10 specimens including in order abdominal hysterectomy, appendix surgery, craniotomy, gastric surgery, open reduction of fracture, coronary artery bypass graft with only chest incision, hip prosthesis, and breast surgery
  2. Abbreviations: MNGHA Ministry of National Guard Health Affairs, KAMC King Abdulaziz Medical City, KAH King Abdulaziz Hospital, IAFH Imam Abdulrahman Al Faisal Hospital, CSEC Cesarean section, COLO Colon surgery, CBGB Coronary artery bypass graft with both chest and donor site incisions, CHOL Gallbladder surgery, HER Herniorrhaphy, KPRO Knee prosthesis
  3. aRow rather than column percentages were calculated b Age and gender were calculated for non-duplicate patients