The Epidemiology of Bloodstream Infections and Antimicrobial Susceptibility Patterns: A Nine-Year Retrospective Study at St. Dominic Hospital, Akwatia, Ghana

Table 2

Scalar year-on-year incidence of bacteraemia among patients at St. Dominic Hospital, Akwatia.

Parameter	Total	2009–2011	2012–2014	2015–2017	Cochran–Armitage test for trends
Total hospital attendance	1,141,417	413,426	413,004	314,987	0.377
Positive cultures	587	95	185	307
Incidence/100,000	51.4	23.0	44.8	97.5
Population of inpatients	97,150	35,691	33,557	27,902	0.213
Positive cultures	558	89	173	296
Incidence/100,000	574.4	249.4	515.5	1,060.9
Population of outpatients	1,044,267	377,735	379,447	287,085	0.931
Positive cultures	29	6	12	11
Incidence/100,000	2.8	1.6	3.2	3.8
Chi-square value	0.001	0.200	0.011	0.189

values are significant at <0.05.