The analysis of contingency tables with ordinal data: an application to monitoring antibiotic resistance.

Abstract:

:Rationalization of antibiotic therapy in the management of infectious diseases is helped by a knowledge of the patterns of sensitivity and resistance of bacteria to antibiotics and their possible changes both in time and from one hospital unit to another. In this paper we present the results regarding the sensitivities of several groups of bacteria and different Units of the S.Orsola-Malpighi Hospital of Bologna in the period 1995-1997. We apply recent methods of analysis of ordinal contingency tables that rely on stochastic ordering of the rows to test the assumption that a decrease (or increase) in sensitivity of bacteria to specific antibiotics has taken place against the alternative that no such thing has happened. In most cases the results seem to indicate an increase in sensitivity rather than what was expected, namely the opposite.

journal_name

Stat Med

journal_title

Statistics in medicine

authors

Bonetto C,Giannerini S,Giovagnoli A

doi

10.1002/sim.2447

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2006-10-30 00:00:00

pages

3560-75

issue

20

eissn

0277-6715

issn

1097-0258

journal_volume

25

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