Patient-, hospital encounter- and facility-level characteristics of a cohort of US hospital-based laboratory-confirmed Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) cases
| MAC cases | 1326 |
| Sex | |
| Male | 552 (42) |
| Female | 774 (58) |
| Age years | |
| <65 | 457 (34) |
| ≥65 | 883 (66) |
| Ethnicity | |
| White | 1023 (77) |
| Black | 142 (11) |
| Hispanic | 16 (1) |
| Other | 145 (11) |
| Concomitant pathogen | |
| Yes | 443 (33) |
| No | 883 (67) |
| Hospital encounters | 2862 |
| Discharge status | |
| Home | 2295 (80) |
| Death/hospice | 139 (5) |
| Transfer | 264 (9) |
| Other/unknown | 164 (6) |
| Specialty of attending physician | |
| Infectious disease | 228 (8) |
| Internal medicine | 620 (22) |
| Pulmonology | 882 (31) |
| Hospitalists | 337 (12) |
| Other | 795 (28) |
| Patient status | |
| Inpatient | 1344 (47) |
| Outpatient | 1518 (53) |
| Radiology (chest CT/radiograph) | |
| Yes | 1338 (47) |
| No | 1524 (53) |
| Facilities | 116 |
| Size (number of beds) | |
| <200 | 32 (28) |
| 200–499 | 60 (52) |
| ≥500 | 24 (21) |
| Teaching status | |
| Yes | 45 (39) |
| No | 71 (61) |
| Setting | |
| Rural | 14 (12) |
| Urban | 102 (88) |
| Region | |
| Midwest | 35 (30) |
| Northeast | 22 (19) |
| South | 43 (37) |
| West | 16 (14) |
Data are presented as n or n (%). CT: computed tomography.