Wei-Lin Xie, Zhuo-Ling Li, Zhen Xu, Huan-Ru Qu, Luan Xue, Xiao Su, Qiang-Hua Wei, Hui Wang, Miao-Ying Li, Fu-Tao Zhao, Lin-Di Jiang, Jiong Zhang, Wei-Guo Wan, Min Dai, Cheng-De Yang, Jian-Long Guan, Li Su, Dong-Bao Zhao, Dong-Yi He, Hu-Ji Xu, He-Jian Zou, Chun-De Bao
Objective. To analyse the potential risk factors of nosocomial infections in patients with active rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Methods. A total of 2452 active RA patients at Hospitals in Shanghai between January 2009 and February 2011 were analyzed. Their demographic and clinical characteristics were compared with those without infection, and the potential risk factors were determined by logistic regression analysis. Results. Multivariate analysis indicated the gender (OR = 0.70, 95% CI 0.53-0.92), duration in hospital (OR = 1...
2012: ISRN Rheumatology