Hospital-onset bacteremia and fungemia: An evaluation of predictors and feasibility of benchmarking comparing two risk-adjusted models among 267 hospitals.
Kalvin C YuGang YeJonathan R EdwardsVikas GuptaAndrea L BeninChinEn AiRaymund B DantesPublished in: Infection control and hospital epidemiology (2022)
Hospital descriptors, aggregate patient characteristics, community bacteremia and/or fungemia burden, and clinical blood-culture testing practices influence rates of HOB. Benchmarking an HOB metric is feasible and should endeavor to include both facility and clinical variables.