Measuring the Direct Medical Costs of Hospital-Onset Infections Using an Analogy Costing Framework.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The majority of recent estimates on the direct medical cost attributable to hospital-onset infections (HOIs) has focused on device- or procedure-associated HOIs. The attributable costs of HOIs that are not associated with device use or procedures have not been extensively studied.

Objective

We developed simulation models of attributable cost for 16 HOIs and estimated the total direct medical cost, including nondevice-related HOIs in the USA for 2011 and 2015.

Data and methods

We used total discharge costs associated with HOI-related hospitalization from the National Inpatient Sample and applied an analogy costing methodology to develop simulation models of the costs attributable to HOIs. The mean attributable cost estimate from the simulation analysis was t

SUBMITTER: Scott RD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11405445 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature