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Volume 7, Number 5—October 2001
Research

Epidemiology of and Surveillance for Postpartum Infections

Deborah S. Yokoe*Comments to Author , Cindy L. Christiansen†, Ruth Johnson‡, Kenneth Sands§, James Livingston*, Ernest S. Shtatland†, and Richard Platt*†
Author affiliations: *Channing Laboratory and Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; †Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, MA, USA; ‡Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates, Boston, MA, USA; §Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA

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Table 2

Predictors of postpartum infection used in the logistic regression models

Variable Odds ratio 95% confidence interval
Model 1: Urinary tract infection, mastitis, surgical site infection or episiotomy site infection following cesarean or vaginal delivery
Cesarean section 1.21 0.59-2.47
Antistaphylococcal antibiotics 1.89 1.02-3.53
Rehospitalization within 30 days of delivery 3.23 1.32-7.91
Ambulatory diagnosis code for mastitis, urinary tract infection, or endometritis 5.70 2.97-10.95
Ambulatory blood or wound culture 5.85 1.97-17.84
Hospital or emergency department diagnosis code for mastitis, urinary tract infection, or other obstetrical complications 0
Model 2. Surgical site infections (including endometritis) following cesarean section
Ambulatory blood or wound culture 9.17 2.44-34.41
Ambulatory diagnosis code for endometritis or wound infection 0

*In the prediction model, any woman with one or more of these codes was given an automatic probability of infection of 1.0 to maintain stability of the model during bootstrap sampling.

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