作者
Eva Morales, Francesc Cots, Maria Sala, Mercè Comas, Francesc Belvis, Marta Riu, Margarita Salvadó, Santiago Grau, Juan P Horcajada, Maria Milagro Montero, Xavier Castells
发表日期
2012/12
期刊
BMC health services research
卷号
12
页码范围
1-8
出版商
BioMed Central
简介
Background
We aimed to assess the hospital economic costs of nosocomial multi-drug resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa acquisition.
Methods
A retrospective study of all hospital admissions between January 1, 2005, and December 31, 2006 was carried out in a 420-bed, urban, tertiary-care teaching hospital in Barcelona (Spain). All patients with a first positive clinical culture for P. aeruginosa more than 48 h after admission were included. Patient and hospitalization characteristics were collected from hospital and microbiology laboratory computerized records. According to antibiotic susceptibility, isolates were classified as non-resistant, resistant and multi-drug resistant. Cost estimation was based on a full-costing cost accounting system and on the criteria of clinical Activity-Based Costing methods. Multivariate analyses were performed using …
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