title: [Hospital sepsis and pre-existing disease].
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  By retrospective study in a fifteen period from 1990 to 2004 to research if a pre-existential disease influences the appearance of gram-positive and gram-negative clear determinated hospital sepsis among 200 septic patients, selected by a random method and with clinic-laboratory signs of sepsis and monomicrobial blood culture.
  
  
  METHODS
  Specimen of septic patients analysed in relation to the patient condition and statistically processed using chi2 test and contigential coefficient C.
  
  
  RESULTS
  We received statistically significant results when we have correlated gram-negative hospital sepsis and pre-existential disease, until this significancy was absent in gram-positive hospital sepsis.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Pre-existential disease can indicate sepsis, the place of acquisition and etiology.
authors.affiliation: Klinika za infektivne bolesti, Klinicki centar Univerziteta Sarajevo.
authors.forename: Nada
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Koluder
authors.forename: Nermina
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Bajramović
mesh_terms: D015897:Comorbidity; D003428:Cross Infection / Q000150:complications*; D016908:Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D018805:Sepsis / Q000150:complications*