The Effect of Infectious Diseases Consultation on Mortality in Hospitalized Patients With Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus, Candida, and Pseudomonas Bloodstream Infections

Supavit Chesdachai; Susan Kline; Derrek Helmin; Radha Rajasingham

doi:10.1093/ofid/ofaa010

The Effect of Infectious Diseases Consultation on Mortality in Hospitalized Patients With Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus, Candida, and Pseudomonas Bloodstream Infections

Open Forum Infect Dis. 2020 Jan 11;7(1):ofaa010. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofaa010. eCollection 2020 Jan.

Authors

Supavit Chesdachai¹, Susan Kline¹, Derrek Helmin², Radha Rajasingham¹

Affiliations

¹ Division of Infectious Diseases and International Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
² Department of Infection Prevention, University of Minnesota Medical Center-Fairview, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.

Abstract

We evaluated the association between infectious disease consultation and bloodstream infection outcomes, including methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, Candida, and Pseudomonas. No infectious diseases consultation was associated with over 4-fold increased hazard of death at 3 months and 6-fold increased hazard of death in hospital.

Keywords: bacteremia; bloodstreams infections; infectious diseases consultation.

Grants and funding

K23 AI138851/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States