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The information collected for all patients included demographic characteristics, primary admission diagnosis, Karnofsky functional status index, Charlson comorbidity index, McCabe- Jackson severity of illness classification, use of antibiotics, and prior exposures to medical and surgical risk factors. Outcome data were also recorded for all patients. Case mix-adjusted rates were calculated by using a multivariate logistic regression model for nosocomial infection risk and an indirect standardization method.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"S0195941700048633_abs5\"><jats:title>Results.<\/jats:title><jats:p>The overall prevalence rate of nosocomial infection was 7.0% (95% confidence interval, 5.9%\u20138.3%) among 1,832 screened patients. Significant variation in nosocomial infection rates was observed across hospitals (range, 2.2%\u20139.6%). Logistic regression analysis indicated that the mean predicted risk of nosocomial infection across hospitals ranged from 3.7% to 10.3%, suggesting considerable variation in patient risk. Case mix-adjusted rates ranged from 2.6% to 12.4%, and the relative ranking of hospitals was affected by case-mix adjustment in 8 cases (72.8%). Nosocomial infection was significantly and independently associated with mortality (adjusted odds ratio, 3.6 [95% confidence interval, 2.1\u20136.1]).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"S0195941700048633_abs6\"><jats:title>Conclusion.<\/jats:title><jats:p>The first attempt to rank the risk of nosocomial infection in these regions demonstrated the importance of accounting for heterogeneous case mix before attempting interhospital comparisons.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1086\/588704","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2008,7,18]],"date-time":"2008-07-18T17:14:06Z","timestamp":1216401246000},"page":"685-692","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":24,"title":["Case-Mix Adjustment Approach to Benchmarking Prevalence Rates of Nosocomial Infection in Hospitals in Cyprus and Greece"],"prefix":"10.1017","volume":"29","author":[{"given":"Evangelos I.","family":"Kritsotakis","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Ioannis","family":"Dimitriadis","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Maria","family":"Roumbelaki","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Emelia","family":"Vounou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Maria","family":"Kontou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Panikos","family":"Papakyriakou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Maria","family":"Koliou-Mazeri","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Ioannis","family":"Varthalitis","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"George","family":"Vrouchos","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"George","family":"Troulakis","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Achilleas","family":"Gikas","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"56","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2015,1,2]]},"reference":[{"key":"S0195941700048633_ref033","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1086\/501897"},{"key":"S0195941700048633_ref015","unstructured":"Reilly J , Stewart S , Allardice , et al. 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