The Direct Medical Costs of Healthcare-Associated Infections in U.S. Hospitals and the Benefits of Prevention

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• Personal Author:
  Scott, R. Douglas
• Corporate Authors:
  National Center for Preparedness, Detection, and Control of Infectious Diseases (U.S.). Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion.
• Description:
  This report uses results from the published medical and economic literature to provide a range of estimates for the annual direct hospital cost of treating healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) in the United States. Applying two different Consumer Price Index (CPI) adjustments to account for the rate of inflation in hospital resource prices, the overall annual direct medical costs of HAI to U.S. hospitals ranges from $28.4 to $33.8 billion (after adjusting to 2007 dollars using the CPI for all urban consumers) and $35.7 billion to $45 billion (after adjusting to 2007 dollars using the CPI for inpatient hospital services). After adjusting for the range of effectiveness of possible infection control interventions, the benefits of prevention range from a low of $5.7 to $6.8 billion (20 percent of infections preventable, CPI for all urban consumers) to a high of $25.0 to $31.5 billion (70 percent of infections preventable, CPI for inpatient hospital services).
• Subjects:
  Cost Of Illness Cross Infection Cross Infection / Economics Cross Infection / Prevention & Control Disease Transmission, Infectious Health Care Costs Health Care Facilities Hospitals Infection Control
• Keywords:
  C. Difficile Infection (CDI) Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infections (CAUTI) Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections (CLABSI) Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAI) Inpatient Rehabilitation Facilities (IRFs) Long-Term Acute Care Hospitals (LTACHs) Surgical Site Infections (SSIs) Ventilator-Associated Events (VAE) Ventilator-Associated Pneumonias (VAPs)
• Series:
  Healthcare-Associated Infections Progress: Reports
• Publisher:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (U.S.)
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Pamphlet (or booklet)
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Rights:
  Public Domain
• CIO:
  National Center for Preparedness, Detection, and Control of Infectious Diseases (NCPDCID)
• Division:
  DHQP - Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion
• Topic:
  Diseases & Conditions
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  16 pdf pages
• Contributor:
  Pollockm Daniel A. ; Stone, Patricia W.
• Collection(s):
  Infectious Diseases
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