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Direct health care costs and length of hospital stay related to health care-acquired infections in adult patients based on point prevalence measurements

Overview of attention for article published in American Journal of Infection Control, March 2016
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Title
Direct health care costs and length of hospital stay related to health care-acquired infections in adult patients based on point prevalence measurements
Published in
American Journal of Infection Control, March 2016
DOI 10.1016/j.ajic.2016.01.035
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Mikael Rahmqvist, Annika Samuelsson, Salumeh Bastami, Hans Rutberg

Abstract

The incidence of health care-acquired infection (HAI) and the consequence for patients with HAI tend to vary from study to study. By including all patients, all medical specialties, and performing a follow-up analysis, this study contributes to previous findings in this research field. Data from the Swedish National Point Prevalence Surveys of HAI 2010-2012 was merged with cost per patient data from the county Health Care Register (N = 6,823). Extended length of stay (LOS) and costs related to an HAI were adjusted for sex, age, intensive care unit use, and surgery. Patients with HAI (n = 732) had a larger proportion of readmissions compared with patients with no HAI (29.0% vs 16.5%). Of the total bed days, 9.3% was considered to be excess days attributed to the group of patients with an HAI. The excess LOS comprised 11.4% of the total costs (95% CI, 10.2-12.7). The 1-year overall mortality rate for patients with HAI in comparison to all other patients was 1.75 (95% CI, 1.45-2.11), all 5 of these differences were statistically significant (P < .001). Even if not all outcomes for patients with an HAI can be explained by the HAI itself, the increase in inpatient days, readmissions, associated costs, and higher mortality rates are quite notable.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Unknown 104 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 20 19%
Student > Bachelor 15 14%
Student > Ph. D. Student 12 12%
Other 11 11%
Researcher 9 9%
Other 21 20%
Unknown 16 15%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 32 31%
Nursing and Health Professions 20 19%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 4 4%
Business, Management and Accounting 4 4%
Chemistry 3 3%
Other 19 18%
Unknown 22 21%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 24 June 2016.
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#7,264,174
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Outputs from American Journal of Infection Control
#1,824
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#96,366
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Outputs of similar age from American Journal of Infection Control
#35
of 111 outputs
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