Burden of Clostridium difficile on the Healthcare System

作者：Dubberke, Erik R.^*; Olsen, Margaret A.

来源：Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2012, 55(suppl_2): S88-S92.

DOI：10.1093/cid/cis335

• INPATIENT FALLS
• RISK-FACTORS
• DISEASE
• INFECTION
• HOSPITALS
• SETTINGS
• OUTCOMES
• PATIENT
• COSTS

There are few high-quality studies of the costs of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI), and the majority of studies focus on the costs of CDI in acute-care facilities. Analysis of the best available data, from 2008, indicates that CDI may have resulted in $4.8 billion in excess costs in US acute-care facilities. Other areas of CDI-attributable excess costs that need to be investigated are costs of increased discharges to long-term care facilities, of CDI with onset in long-term care facilities, of recurrent CDI, and of additional adverse events caused by CDI.

• 出版日期2012-8-1