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Table 2 Sample sizes, number of respondents, response rates and respondents per type of HRMO

From: Contact investigations for antibiotic-resistant bacteria: a mixed-methods study of patients’ comprehension of and compliance with self-sampling requests post-discharge

Hospital

Sample size

Respondents

Response rates (%)

MRSA

VRE

CPE

MDR-AB

MDR-PA

1

100

51

51.0

18

27

6

–

–

2

100

41

51.0

16

9

–

9

7

3

100

41

41.0

13

26

–

–

2

4

100

32

32.0

10

16

2

4

–

5

100

30

30.0

18

12

–

–

–

6

68

17

25.0

17

–

–

–

–

7

62

22

35.5

5

–

17

–

–

8

34

3

8.8

3

–

–

–

–

Total

664

237

35.7%

100

90

25

13

9

  1. HRMO highly-resistant microorganism, MRSA methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, VRE vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium, CPE carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales, MDR-AB multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii, MDR-PA multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa
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Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control

ISSN: 2047-2994

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