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Hospital-acquired bloodstream infections can cause prolonged hospital stays, higher morbidity, and excess risk for death. To examine this issue, researchers in Denmark conducted a population-based cohort study involving 3457 episodes of hospital-acquired bacteremia in 205,962 patients hospitalized for ≥48 hours between 2006 and 2018.
Hospital patients who contracted bacteremia were older than the general hospitalized population (median age, 70 vs. 66), less likely to be female (37% vs. 55%), and more likely to have comorbidities (29% vs. 16% with CCI score ≥3). In-hospital bacteremia led to an average excess stay duration of 6.6 days (range, 3.8 days [urinary tract sources] – 18.3 days [cardiovascular sources]). The effect was more pronounce…