Estimating the excess bed days and economic burden of healthcare-associated infections in Singapore public acute-care hospitals.

Authors :: Cai Y
Venkatachalam I
Kwa AL
Tambyah PA
Hsu LY
Marimuthu K
Graves N
Source :: Infection control and hospital epidemiology [Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol] 2022 Sep; Vol. 43 (9), pp. 1245-1248. Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 May 21.
Publication Year :: 2022
Abstract: We estimated the annual bed days lost and economic burden of healthcare-associated infections to Singapore hospitals using Monte Carlo simulation. The mean (standard deviation) cost of a single healthcare-associated infection was S$1,809 (S$440) [or US$1,362 (US$331)]. This translated to annual lost bed days and economic burden of 55,978 (20,506) days and S$152.0 million (S$37.1 million) [or US$114.4 million (US$27.9 million)], respectively.

Subjects :: Cost of Illness
Delivery of Health Care
Hospitals, Public
Humans
Singapore epidemiology
Cross Infection epidemiology
Financial Stress

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