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Table 1 Baseline patient demographic and clinical characteristics

From: Real-world daptomycin use across wide geographical regions: results from a pooled analysis of CORE and EU-CORE

Characteristic

Pooled data (2004–2012)

N = 11,557

n (%)

Overlapping time period (2007–2009)

COREa

EU-COREa

N = 2827

n (%)

N = 3333

n (%)

Male

6587 (57.0)

1454 (51.4)

2150 (64.5)

Ageb (years), median (range)

62.0 (1–103)

56.5 (4–99)

63.0 (1–103)

 <65 years

7111 (61.5)

1945 (68.8)

1758 (52.7)

 ≥65 years

4441 (38.4)

882 (31.2)

1572 (47.2)

 ≥75 years

1732 (15.0)

265 (9.4)

734 (22.0)

Body weight (kg), median (range)

78.0 (6–275)

81.9 (15–259)

75.0 (6–200)

Race, Caucasian

7191 (62.2)

1967 (69.6)

3058 (91.7)

Setting prior to daptomycin therapyc

 Hospital

7278 (63.0)

1359 (49.3)

2558 (76.7)

 Nursing home/extended care

431 (3.7)

152 (5.4)

102 (3.1)

 Community

3772 (32.6)

1275 (45.1)

637 (19.1)

 Other

57 (0.5)

5 (0.2)

24 (0.7)

  1. Data are presented as n (%), unless indicated otherwise
  2. aData are from three overlapping periods: 2007–2009
  3. bData missing for 5 patients
  4. cData missing for 19 patients