Abstract:Objective To study the role of red blood cell distribution width (RDW) in the prognosis evaluation of multidrug-resistant organism (MDRO) pulmonary infection (PI) in patients in intensive care unit (ICU). Methods Patients with MDRO PI in the ICU of a hospital from January 2021 to December 2022 were selected, they were divided into good prognosis group and poor prognosis group based on the prognosis. Basic information and serological indicators between two groups of patients were compared, including RDW (RDW coefficient of variation [RDW-CV], RDW standard deviation [RDW-SD]), D-dimer, procalcitonin (PCT), high-sensitivity troponin (TNTsh), N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP), erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR), C-reactive protein (CRP), and interleukin-6 (IL-6). Univariate t-test and multiple logistic regression were adopted to analyze the correlation factors between serological indicators and the prognosis of MDRO PI patients, receiver operating characte-ristic (ROC) curves were used to evaluate the predictive efficacy of RDW on the prognosis of MDRO PI patients. Results A total of 275 cases of MDRO PI were included in analysis, age range from 22 to 99 years old; 181 cases (65.8%) were in good prognosis group, 94 cases (34.2%) in poor prognosis group. The levels of PCT, D-dimer, RDW-CV, RDW-SD, TNTsh, and NT-proBNP in the poor prognosis group were all higher than those in the good prognosis group, differences were all statistically significant (all P<0.05). Multivariate logistic regression analysis showed that the increase of RDW-CV (OR=19.011, 95%CI [5.247-68.882], P<0.05) and RDW-SD (OR=13.693, 95%CI [3.820-49.087], P<0.05) were associated with poor prognosis in patients with MDRO PI. ROC curve results showed that the areas under the curve of RDW-CV and RDW-SD were 0.901 and 0.896, respectively, with optimal cutoff values of 14.45% and 49.60%, respectively. Conclusion This study suggests that RDW value is closely related to the disease outcome of MDRO PI patients, and is expected to become one of the prognostic evaluation indicators, achieve early intervention and risk assessment.