Table 1 Clinical characteristics of the study population.

From: Epidemiology, clinical relevance and prognosis of staphylococci in hospital-acquired postoperative intra-abdominal infections: an observational study in intensive care unit

Variables

nS-HAI

n = 293

S-HAI

n = 87

CoNS-HAI

n = 58

Sa-HAI

n = 29

Missing

data

Demographic characteristics and comorbidities

Age (years)

61 [50–72]

62 [45–77]

63 [46–77]

57 [37–77]

Male gender

164 (56)

42 (48)

32 (55)

10 (34)

Fatal underlying diseases

91 (31)

31 (36)

25 (43)

6 (21)

Immunosuppression

101 (34)

27 (31)

19 (33)

8 (28)

Cancer

111 (38)

27 (31)

20 (34)

7 (24)

Diabetes mellitus

58 (20)

11 (13)

4 (7)

7 (24)

Initial surgery

Emergency procedure

106 (36)

39 (45)

30 (52)

9 (32)

Septic or contaminated surgery

115 (39)

33 (38)

25 (43)

8 (28)

Antibiotics before reoperation for HAI

181 (62)

53 (61)

34 (62)

11 (38)

2/0/0/0

Interval between initial surgery and reoperation (days)

7 [4–12]

7.5 [4–10]

7 [5–11]

8 [3–10]

2/1/1/0

Severity criteria at the time of reoperation

SAPS II score

49 [37–60]

46 [33–57]

47 [32–58]

44 [33–56]

SOFA score

8 [5–10]

7 [4–9]*

7 [4–9]

7 [4–10]

Hemodynamic failure

197 (67)

53 (61)

36 (62)

17 (59)

Respiratory failure

141 (48)

32 (37)

23 (40)

9 (31)

Kidney failure

83 (28)

21 (24)

12 (21)

9 (31)

Source of postoperative peritonitis and surgical observations

Anastomotic leak

107 (37)

26 (30)

16 (28)

10 (34)

Bowel perforation

92 (31)

31 (36)

19 (33)

12 (41)

Abscess

47 (16)

18 (21)

14 (24)

4 (14)

Gastroduodenal source

52 (18)

26 (30)*

16 (28)

10 (34)

7/1/1/0

Small bowel source

75 (26)

18 (21)

12 (21)

6 (21)

7/1/1/0

Colonic or rectal source

79 (28)

21 (24)

12 (21)

9 (31)

7/1/1/0

Generalized peritonitis

76 (26)

18 (21)

13 (22)

5 (17)

7/1/1/0

  1. HAI Hospital-acquired postoperative intra-abdominal infection, nS-HAI infection without peritoneal staphylococci culture, S-HAI infection with positive staphylococci peritoneal cultures, Sa-HAI infection with Staphylococcus aureus positive peritoneal culture, CoNS-HAI infection with coagulase-negative staphylococcus positive peritoneal culture, SAPS II Simplified Acute Physiology Score II, SOFA Sequential Organ Failure Assessment.
  2. [25th–75th]: [25th–75th percentiles].
  3. *p < 0.05 between the nS-HAI and S-HAI groups; p < 0.05 between the CoNS-HAI and Sa-HAI groups.