Costs Attributable to Clostridioides difficile Infection Based on the Setting of Onset.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Although hospital-onset Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) is associated with significant healthcare costs, the economic burden of CDI with onset in other facilities or the community has not been well studied.

Methods

Incident CDI cases were identified using 2011-2017 Medicare fee-for-service data. Controls were randomly selected in a 4:1 ratio matching to the CDI case surveillance definition. Inverse probability of exposure weights were used to balance on measured confounders. One-, 3-, and 5-year cumulative costs attributable to CDI were computed using a 3-part estimator (parametric survival model and pair of 2-part models predicting costs separately in intervals where death did and did not occur).

Results

A total of 60 492 CDI cases were frequency-

SUBMITTER: Sahrmann JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10226732 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature