Cost of Hospital-Acquired Infection.

The authors assessed the costs of hospital-acquired infections using rigorous econometric methods on publicly available data, controlling for the interdependency of length of stay and the incidence of hospital acquired infection, and estimated the cost shares of different payers. They developed a sy...

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Publicado en:Hospital Topics Vol. 88; no. 3; pp. 82 - 90
Autores principales: Hassan M, Tuckman HP, Patrick RH, Kountz DS, Kohn JL
Formato: equations & formulas research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Jul-Sep2010
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          Hassan M
          Tuckman HP
          Patrick RH
          Kountz DS
          Kohn JL
        affil: The Blanche and Irwin Lerner Center for Pharmaceutical Management Studies, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Brunswick, New Jersey
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          Cross Infection Economics
          Health Facility Costs
          Human
          Inpatients
          Length of Stay
          Cross Infection Epidemiology
          Incidence
          New Jersey
          Reports
          American Hospital Association
          Medicare
          Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
          Databases
          Descriptive Statistics
          Surveys
          Insurance, Health
      ab: The authors assessed the costs of hospital-acquired infections using rigorous econometric methods on publicly available data, controlling for the interdependency of length of stay and the incidence of hospital acquired infection, and estimated the cost shares of different payers. They developed a system of equations involving length of stay, incidence of infection, and the total hospital care cost to be estimated using simultaneous equations system. The main data came from the State of New Jersey UB 92 for 2004, complimented with data from the Annual Survey of Hospitals by the American Hospital Association and the Medicare Cost Report of 2004. The authors estimated that an incidence of hospital acquired infection increases the hospital care cost of a patient by $10,375 and it increases the length of stay by 3.30 days, and that a disproportionately higher portion of the cost is attributable to Medicare. They conclude that reliable cost estimates of hospital-acquired infections can be made using publicly available data. Their estimate shows a much larger aggregate cost of $16.6 billion as opposed to $5 billion reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention but much less than $29 billion as reported elsewhere in the literature.
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