Table
4: Microorganisms
associated with in-hospital deaths among surgical, critically ill patients with
sepsis
Variables |
Hospital Survivors (n = 78) |
Hospital Non-survivors (n = 25) |
P-value |
Septic shock (n = 20) |
P-value |
Gram positive |
31 |
8 |
0.344 |
5 |
0.211 |
Enterococcus species |
10 |
3 |
1 |
1 |
0.454 |
Staphylococcus aureus |
10 |
2 |
0.726 |
1 |
0.453 |
Streptococcus species |
7 |
1 |
0.676 |
2 |
0.651 |
Clostridium species |
2 |
1 |
0.57 |
1 |
0.481 |
Staphylococcus epidermidis |
1 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
0.454 |
Bacillus species |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
Corynebacterium
species |
0 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
Gram negative |
25 |
10 |
0.476 |
10 |
0.116 |
Escherichia coli |
11 |
6 |
0.352 |
7 |
0.021 |
Bacteroides
species |
6 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
0.454 |
Klebsiella pneumoniae |
2 |
2 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
Pseudomonas aeruginosa |
2 |
1 |
0.57 |
1 |
0.481 |
Enterobacter
cloacae |
2 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
Citrobacter freundii |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
Proteus vulgaris |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
Candida species |
2 |
1 |
0.57 |
0 |
1 |
Unknown |
20 |
6 |
- |
5 |
- |