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

Table 1

Age- and gender-stratified crude incidence of bacteraemia among the population of patients seeking healthcare at St. Dominic Hospital, Akwatia, Ghana.

Parameter	Population		Bacteraemia case		Crude incidence/10,000 persons			Direct age-standardized incidence/10,000 persons
Age group	Male	Female	Male	Female	Male	Female	P weight	Male	Female
<5 years	5,476	5,228	204	173	372.5	330.9	0.14	50.9	45.2
5–24 years	17,579	17,903	53	54	30.2	30.2	0.45	13.7	13.7
25–44 years	8,927	10,239	19	30	21.3	29.3	0.24	5.2	7.2
45–64 years	5,184	4,719	16	22	30.9	46.6	0.13	3.9	5.9
65–84 years	1,468	1,675	8	8	54.5	47.8	0.04	2.2	1.9
Total	38,634	39,764	300	287	77.7	72.2	1.00	77.3	75.1

Population figures and weight were obtained using the 2010 population figures for the district. P weight, population weight.