title: [A case-control study on risk factors for nosocomial infection of epilepsy in hospitalized children].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To determine the incidence and risk factors for nosocomial infection in child epilepsy.
  
  
  METHODS
  A retrospective study was conducted among all (292 cases) hospitalized children epilepsy patients in First Affiliated Hospital of Fujian Medical University from 1996 to 2000 in Fuzhou city. With all patients with nosocomial infection as cases and all patients without nosocomial infection as controls, a case-control study on risk factors for nosocomial infection was carried out. Available data were analyzed by one-way Chi-square test and unconditional logistic multiple regression model.
  
  
  RESULTS
  One hundred fourteen cases of nosocomial infection were identified among 292 cases with epilepsy with an incidence of 39.0% (114/292). The one-way Chi-square test showed that nosocomial infection was significantly associated with age below 3 years (OR = 2.55, P < 0.01), length of hospitalization over 14 days (OR = 4.75, P < 0.01), low intelligence (OR = 3.13, P < 0.01), receiving antibiotic unreasonably (OR = 3.51, P < 0.01), using gastrogarage (OR = 3.12, P < 0.01), other invasive operation (OR = 1.85, P < 0.05) dyskinesia or palsy (OR = 3.51, P < 0.01), and urinary nitrogen beyond normal range (OR = 5.00, P < 0.05), etc. Unconditional logistic multiple regression analysis revealed that the length of hospitalization over 14 days (OR = 4.30, OR 95% CI: 2.48 - 7.46, P < 0.01), taking antibiotic unreasonably (OR = 2.74, OR 95% CI: 1.30 - 5.77, P < 0.01), using gastrogarage (OR = 3.04, OR 95% CI: 1.28 - 7.18, P < 0.05), and low intelligence (OR = 2.32, OR 95% CI: 1.34 - 4.01, P < 0.01) were independent risk factors for nosocomial infection. The tendency chi-square test showed that the longer stay in the hospital with more kinds of antibiotic used and more gastrogarage they used, the greater the risk of nosocomial infection was.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Data suggested that occurrence of the nosocomial infection of children epilepsy patients was correlated with the length of hospitalization over 14 days, unreasonable using antibiotic, using gastrogarage and low intelligence.
authors.affiliation: Department of Epidemiology and Health Statistics, Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou 350004, China.
authors.forename: Neng-feng
authors.initials: NF
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Liu-qing
authors.initials: LQ
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Yong-quan
authors.initials: YQ
authors.lastname: Huang
mesh_terms: D016022:Case-Control Studies; D002648:Child; D002673:Child, Hospitalized; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003428:Cross Infection / Q000209:etiology*; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000150:complications*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007902:Length of Stay; D016015:Logistic Models; D008297:Male; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012307:Risk Factors