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Table 3 Factors affecting frequent consultation requests in bivariate analyses

From: Assessment of the requisites of microbiology based infectious disease training under the pressure of consultation needs

Variables

 

3 and upper

2 and lower

Significance

  

N

%

n

%

χ 2

P

Gender

Female

225

39.2

349

60.8

3.90

0.048

 

Male

260

33.8

509

66.2

  

Nature of ID

CAI

390

34.8

732

65.2

5.06

0.024

 

HCAI

95

43.0

126

57.0

  

Type of Hospital

Public

15

15.0

85

85.0

30.97

< 0.001

 

Public training *

166

32.6

343

67.4

  
 

University *

304

41.4

430

58.6

  

Source of patient

Emergency

174

34.3

333

65.7

18.2

< 0.001

 

ID polyclinic

184

32.7

378

67.3

  
 

Other clinic *

64

43.5

83

56.5

  
 

Outer centre *

64

50.3

63

49.7

  

Number of IDs

One ID

374

34.0

725

66.0

10.87

0.001

 

Two IDs

111

45.5

133

54.5

  

Number of comorbidities

None

215

31.9

460

68.1

20.61

< 0.001

 

One disorder

145

35.7

261

64.3

  
 

Two disorder

125

47.7

137

52.3

  

Site of infection**

CNS*

87

49.7

88

50.3

66.34

< 0.001

 

Endocard tissue*

25

49.0

26

51.0

  
 

Skin-soft tissue*

86

40.4

127

59.6

  
 

Abscesses*

11

39.3

17

60.7

  
 

EP-tbc*

7

33.3

14

66.7

  
 

UTI*

70

31.1

155

68.9

  
 

Gastrointestinal*

6

30.0

14

70.0

  
 

Other

193

31.6

417

68.4

  

Sepsis status

None

213

33.3

426

66.7

10.20

0.017

 

Sepsis

111

35.2

204

64.8

  
 

Severe sepsis*

150

42.9

200

57.1

  
 

Septic shock

11

28.2

28

71.8

  

ICU status

Yes

47

41.6

66

58.4

1.35

0.24

 

No

438

35.6

792

64.4

  

NIMV

Yes

11

32.4

23

67.6

0.07

0.77

 

No

474

36.2

835

63.8

  

MV

Yes

29

46.0

34

54.0

2.38

0.12

 

No

456

35.6

824

64.4

  

O2 by nasal mask

Yes

127

46.9

144

53.1

16.42

< 0.001

 

No

358

33.4

714

66.6

  

Discharge type

      

   Complete cure

165

26.4

461

73.6

12.72

0.026

   With improvement or sequential therapy

80

29.7

189

70.3

  

   Transferring to other clinic

31

27.9

80

72.1

  

   Taking own discharge

5

27.8

13

72.2

  

   Transferring to other hospital

16

41.0

23

59.0

  

Death*

29

44.6

36

55.4

  

Age

n

Mean ± sd

n

Mean ± sd

M-W U

P

  

485

54.7-18.5

858

49.9-20.0

178514

< 0.001

Length of hospital stay

485

29.4-20.1

858

17.2-13.7

123869

< 0.001

  1. * The group which contributes to significance, **The analyses were made one by one or all infection sites, but for convenience insignificant parameters were unified as others in the table
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