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We compared clinical characteristics, microbiology, treatment intensity, and in-hospital mortality among patients with no documented bacterial infection, antimicrobial-susceptible infection, or multidrug-resistant (MDR) infection. Methods: We conducted a single-center retrospective cohort study of the first eligible ICU hospitalization for each patient at the University Clinical Hospital in Bialystok, Poland, from 1 January 2017 to 1 June 2023. Infection groups were assigned using clinical documentation, microbiological results, and local laboratory resistance-phenotype coding; patients with multiple isolates were classified according to the most resistant clinically relevant isolate. Multivariable logistic regression evaluated associations with in-hospital mortality. Results: Among 3326 patients, 1413 (42.5%) had a documented bacterial infection: 481 (34.0% of infected patients) had susceptible infection and 932 (66.0%) had MDR infection. Crude mortality was 45.5%, 46.8%, and 48.4% in the no-infection, susceptible-infection, and MDR-infection groups, respectively (p = 0.354), whereas mean ICU length of stay was 10.0, 15.5, and 25.2 days (p &lt; 0.001). In the complete-case whole-cohort model (n = 678), MDR infection (adjusted OR 2.70, 95% CI 1.84\u20133.96) and susceptible infection (adjusted OR 2.16, 95% CI 1.26\u20133.69) were associated with in-hospital death versus no infection. Within the infected cohort (n = 352), MDR status was not independently associated with mortality versus susceptible infection (adjusted OR 1.09, 95% CI 0.61\u20131.93). Conclusions: MDR infection identified patients with prolonged ICU exposure and greater organ-support requirements but did not independently increase mortality relative to susceptible infection. 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