The socioeconomic burden of hospital acquired infection

Open Access

1 April 2000

journal article
Published by European Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (ECDC) in Eurosurveillance

Vol. 5 (4) , 49-50
https://doi.org/10.2807/esm.05.04.00004-en

Abstract

Adult inpatients in common specialties who developed hospital acquired infection (HAI) remained in hospital 2.5 times longer, incurred hospital costs almost three times higher, and incurred higher general practitioner, district nurse, and hospital costs a

Keywords

ACQUIRED INFECTION
HOSPITAL ACQUIRED
SPECIALTIES WHO
TIMES HIGHER
ADULT INPATIENTS
INCURRED HIGHER
SOCIOECONOMIC BURDEN

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