A prospective study of epidemiology characteristics and outcomes of bloodstream infections in older patients.
Aikaterini MoschouPetros IoannouSofia MarakiFilippos KoutroumpakisMaria MamaloukakiCharalampos BikisGeorge SamonisJohn A PapadakisDiamantis P KofteridisPublished in: Australasian journal on ageing (2020)
Community-acquired, health care-associated and hospital-acquired BSIs had different presentation, microbiology and outcomes. Older patients had a high mortality. The absence of fever, inappropriate empirical treatment and septic shock were independent mortality predictors.