Abstract:
OBJECTIVE To explore the influence of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) caused by carbapenem-resistant bacteria on length of hospital stay, hospitalization cost and prognosis and understand the economic loss.
METHODS A retrospective survey was conducted for the clinical data of the patients with carbapenem-resistant bacteria VAP and carbapenem-sensitive bacteria VAP who were treated in the Third Affiliated Hospital of Guizhou Medical University from Jan 2017 to Nov 2019, including the baseline data, characteristics of infection and related factors. A 1:1 matching was carried out for the patients with VAP caused by carbapenem-resistant bacteria and the patients with VAP caused by the same species of carbapenem-resistant bacteria by using propensity score matching (PSM) method. The length of hospital stay, hospitalization cost and prognosis were observed and compared between the patients with carbapenem-resistant bacteria pneumonia and the patients with carbapenem-sensitive bacteria pneumonia.
RESULTS The incidence rate of VAP caused by the carbapenem-resistant pathogens was 7.32%, the incidence rate of carbapenem-resistant
Acinetobacter baumannii VAP was 2.36%, the incidence rate of carbapenem-resistant
Pseudomonas aeruginosa VAP was 1.98%, the incidence rate of carbapenem-resistant
Klebsiella pneumoniae VAP was 1.60%, and the incidence rate of carbapenem-resistant
Escherichia coli VAP was 1.37%. The PSM and balance test showed that the average length of hospital stay of the patients with carbapenem-resistant bacteria VAP was 22 days longer than that of the patients with carbapenem-sensitive bacteria VAP (
P<0.001), and the average hospitalization cost in total was increased by 43 894.09 yuan (
P<0.001).
CONCLUSION The VAP caused by the carbapenem-resistant bacteria may lead to the increase of medical cost and economic loss, extension of length of hospital stay and poor prognosis. It is necessary for the hospital to strengthen the management of carbapenems antibiotics and reduce the incidence of carbapenem-resistant bacteria VAP.