From: Hospital variation in transfusion and infection after cardiac surgery: a cohort study
Outcome: | Number (%) with infection during hospitalisation | Odds ratio for allogeneic transfusion* (95% CI) | P value |
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Genitourinary system infection | 1,567 (6.3%) | 1.27 (1.03, 1.55) | 0.023 |
Respiratory tract infection | 1,247 (5.0%) | 2.45 (1.88, 3.21) | < 0.001 |
Septicaemia or sepsis | 506 (2.0%) | 3.65 (2.22, 6.00) | < 0.001 |
Infection of skin or subcutaneous tissue | 392 (1.6%) | 2.27 (1.48, 3.48) | < 0.001 |
Postoperative infection (site undefined) | 382 (1.5%) | 2.02 (1.31, 3.11) | 0.002 |
Infection with C. difficile | 127 (0.5%) | 3.16 (1.36, 7.35) | 0.008 |
Circulatory system infection | 130 (0.5%) | 1.65 (0.92, 2.95) | 0.093 |
Digestive tract infection | 118 (0.5%) | 2.11 (1.01, 4.44) | 0.048 |