Prevalence, resistance profiles and factors associated with skin and soft-tissue infections at Jinja regional referral hospital: A retrospective study

Skin and soft-tissue infections (SSTI) are common cases of hospital-acquired infections with aetiologic agents exhibiting antimicrobial resistance (AMR). We determined the prevalence, proportion of laboratory-investigated cases, AMR-profiles, and factors associated with SSTI and multi-drug resistance (MDR). This study was based on archived data of patients suspected of SSTI from 2019-2021 at Jinja Regional Referral Hospital.  The analysis involved 268 randomly selected patient reports. Prevalence of SSTI was 66.4%. Laboratory-investigated cases were 14.11%. Staphylococcus aureus (n=51) was the most isolated organism. MDR pathogens explained 47% of infections. Methicillin-resistant S. aureus was up to 44%. In addition, 61% of Gram-negatives had the potential to produce extended-spectrum beta-lactamases, while 27% were non-susceptible to carbapenems. Ward of admission was significantly associated with infection (aPR=1.78, 95% CI: 1.003-3.18, p-value=0.04). Age category (19-35) was an inde..., Collected from information systems of a health facility and patients' records without identifiers. Cleaned using MS Excel. Analysed using STATA 17.0 and WHONET 2022., , # Prevalence, resistance profiles and factors associated with skin and soft-tissue infections at Jinja regional referral hospital: A retrospective Study

[https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.rjdfn2zkh](https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.rjdfn2zkh)

The original dataset (SSTI Dataset-JRRH.xls) and the WHONET version (SSTI Dataset-JRRH.dbf) have both been uploaded.

## Description of the data and file structure

This dataset is mainly made up of rows and columns appropriately titled. Each row corresponds to one individual and respective data. This includes multiple variables including;

* Year Case-Year in which the patient sought medical care and their case recorded at the facility.
* Ward- Special medical unit for patient care
* Sex- Biological characteristics of males or females
* Age- Time spent on earth since birth (in years)
* Age group- Categories of the age
*  Hospitalized≥48Hrs- Whether a patient was admitted at the hospital for at least two days or not. N/A in this case and elsewhere indic...