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医院感染危险因素的探讨主要集中于成人,而对于新生儿和儿童医院感染的研究却稍显不足。
最新的研究表明,种族和年龄差异可能是儿童SSTI的重要危险因素。
洛佩兹LOPEZ MA在2011 Pediatric Academics Societies年会上发表PRESENTATION,通过回顾性研究他们发现:
1.亚洲和太平洋地区的儿童相对于其他种族的儿童,入院时间要延长。
2.相对于美国的北部和南部,美国西部和中西部在处理SSTI中的成本显著增加。
研究提示,在进行干预的时候种族和年龄差异是值得考虑的因素。
至于其确切机制,还有待进一步研究证实。
【注】:
这一研究结论仅仅是作为PRESENTATION发表,并未通过PEER-REVIEW,所以有一定的参考价值,但是需要进一步论证!!!
Racial and age differences among patients with skin- and soft-tissue infections are areas that need to be explored in future studies, according to a presentation at the 2011 Pediatric Academics Societies’ Annual Meeting.
Michelle A. Lopez, MD, works in the department of pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, and presented the study findings. Lopez and colleagues examined what factors were associated with hospitalizations for skin- and soft-tissue infections (SSTIs). They analyzed a cross section of patients from the 2006 Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project Kids’ Inpatient Database. They included in the study patients aged 2 months through 18 years who had an IDC-9 code consistent with SSTI and who also had a hospital stay for longer than 2 days. About 19,000 children met inclusion criteria. Hispanic and Asian/other race children were most likely to have a longer length of hospital stay, and consequently incur greater costs, than white children.
The researchers noted that the western and Midwestern US regions showed the highest costs compared with the Northeast and the South (OR=2.22; CI, 1.44-3.43 and OR=4.38; CI, 2.93-6.54, respectively).
Lopez noted that privately insured children and those admitted to children’s hospitals had a shorter average length of stay in the hospital compared with those on Medicaid and those older children admitted to standard hospitals. “Identifying the mechanisms for these disparities may lead to interventions to reduce the health care burden attributable to SSTI admissions,” Lopez and colleagues wrote. |