Recent Advances in Investigation, Prevention, and Management of Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAIs): Resistant Multidrug Strain Colonization and Its Risk Factors in an Intensive Care Unit of a University Hospital

Table 1

Clinical characteristics of the patients (n= 1971).

	Male	Female
Number of patients	1107	864
Mean age (years)	65.13±14.65	70.15±14.13
Age > 65 years	599	618
Carmeli score	1.54±0.66	1.75±0.77
Previous hospitalization	349	274
Antibiotic treatment	825	648
Surgical patients	53	42
Perioperative infection prophylaxis	13	10
Respiratory diseases	173	140
Cardiovascular diseases	516	437
Chronic renal failure	30	14
Chronic liver diseases	47	27
Cancer	96	70
Hematologic malignancy	3	0
Diabetes mellitus	183	210