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Table 1 Number of admissions and total and positive blood cultures during each study period in General Hospital of Tripolis, Greece (16/05/2000–15/05/2005).

From: Secular trends of blood isolates in patients from a rural area population hospitalized in a tertiary center in a small city in Greece

 

Hospital admission period

 

2001

2002

2003

2004

2005

2001–2005 (total)

p-value

Hospitalized patients

12,625

12,655

13,559

13,835

14,396

67,070

< 0.001

Number of blood cultures obtained

406

483

650

763

904

3,206

< 0.001

Ratio of admissions to blood cultures obtained

31:1

26:1

21:1

18:1

16:1

21:1

 

Positive blood cultures (proportion from blood cultures obtained)

46 (11.3)

48 (9.9)

71 (10.9)

88 (11.5)

120 (13.3)

373 (11.6)

0.39