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Volume 10, Number 11—November 2004
Research

Enhanced Identification of Postoperative Infections among Inpatients

Deborah S. Yokoe*Comments to Author , Gary A. Noskin†, Susan M. Cunningham†, Gianna Zuccotti‡, Theresa Plaskett‡, Victoria J. Fraser§, Margaret A. Olsen§, Jerome I. Tokars¶, Steven Solomon¶, Trish M. Perl#, Sara E. Cosgrove#, Richard S. Tilson*, Maurice Greenbaum**, David C. Hooper††, Kenneth E. Sands‡‡, John Tully§§, Loreen A. Herwaldt¶¶, Daniel J. Diekema¶¶, Edward S. Wong##, Michael Climo##, and Richard Platt***
Author affiliations: *Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; †Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois, USA; ‡Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York, USA; §Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri, USA; ¶Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; #Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; **North Shore Medical Center-Salem Hospital, Salem, Massachusetts, USA; ††Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; ‡‡Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; §§Mount Auburn Medical Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; ¶¶University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa, USA; ##McGuire Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Richmond, Virginia, USA; ***Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

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Table A4

Percentage of patients who underwent CABG procedures and who met the antimicrobial exposure or diagnosis code screening criteriaa

Hospital % of CABG patients with
9-day antimicrobial threshold 7-day antimicrobial threshold Diagnosis code criteria 9-day antimicrobial or
diagnosis code criteria (%)
1A 13.7 –b 2.2 13.8
1B 21.0 –b 7.4 22.2
1C 12.9 –b 4.9 13.2
1D 5.2 –b 3.5 6.4
Pooled 15.2 –b 4.5 15.8
2A 18.6 18.9 3.7 18.6
2B 17.3 21.0 6.2 18.2
2C 15.0 17.0 3.9 15.0
2D 22.9 31.5 5.3 23.6
2E 17.4 18.2 3.7 17.9
2F 22.6 25.3 6.0 22.6
Pooled 19.1 23.1 4.6 19.6

aCABG, coronary artery bypass graft.
b7-day antimicrobial threshold was not evaluated.

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