Table 1 The number of patients to be screened per year, defined by the number of patients previously admitted to a ‘hospital with a known carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE) problem’ extracted from the Hospital Episode Statistics, under a number of assumed definitions of ‘problem hospitals’, readmissions to the same hospital were excluded
Hospitals with ‘known CPE problem’ defined as: | Screening patients admitted to: | Patients to be screened/year |
|---|---|---|
Most affected Manchester hospital | All other hospitals | 52,958 |
In same region | 42,431 | |
Outside region | 10,527 | |
All hospitals in the Manchester referral region | All other hospitals | 228,575 |
In same region | 192,613 | |
Outside region | 35,962 | |
All hospitals in both London referral regions | All other hospitals | 750,939 |
In same region | 666,909 | |
Outside region | 84,030 |