Abstract:
OBJECTIVE To carry out a comprehensive risk assessment of multiple drug resistant organisms (MDRO) detection in patients readmitted to hospital, to providing the basis and ideas for the prevention and control of MDRO in such population.
METHODS A total of 2 274 patients with MDRO carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae (CRKP), Escherichia coli(CREC), Acinetobacter Baumannii (CRAB), Pseudomonas Aeruginosa (CRPA), and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)detected in the First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University in 2022 were selected for the study, risk factors and intervals of redetection after readmission were assessed.
RESULTS The proportion of patients with MDRO redetection after readmittance within 1 year was 8.88% (202/2 274), with CRPA (15.96%), CRKP (12.57%), and CREC (7.27%) ranking the top three; there were statistically significant differences among different MDROs redetective rates (P < 0.001); the proportion of MDRO redetection within 1 year among patients with repeated hospitalization was significantly higher than that in those with first-time hospitalization (18.67% vs. 2.96%), and the differences between the two groups were also statistically significant for CRKP (21.01% vs. 7.63%), CRAB (17.67% vs. 1.25%), CRPA (25.53% vs. 4.19%) and MRSA (11.11% vs. 2.48%) (P < 0.001). The top three departments of patients with MDRO redetection within 1 year were geriatric medicine (36.75%), internal medicine (7.73%) and surgery (5.65%); the main reinfection types in a descending order were community-acquired infections (11.82%), hospital-acquired infections (6.70%) and colonization (3.94%) with statistically significant differences (P < 0.001); the redetection rates of MDRO decreased gradually with the prolongation of discharge; the onset time mainly concentrated in 1 month (47.52%) and 1-3 months (32.67%) after discharge, the cumulative incidence of which was 80.20% in 3 months and 6 months was 92.08%.
CONCLUSIONS Readmission of MDRO-redetected patients might cause hospital-associated transmission. Those with history of hospitalization, MDRO infection, geriatric medicine and readmission of MDRO patients within 6 months after discharge are the high-risk population, which should be prevented and controlled with the help of information technology.