A 7-year analysis of attributable costs of healthcare-associated infections in a network of community hospitals in the southeastern United States

Helen L Zhang; Linda Crane; Andrea Lynn Cromer; Amanda Green; Polly Padgette; Valerie C Payne; Linda Roach; Brittain Wood; Deverick J Anderson

doi:10.1017/ice.2023.160

A 7-year analysis of attributable costs of healthcare-associated infections in a network of community hospitals in the southeastern United States

Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2024 Jan;45(1):103-105. doi: 10.1017/ice.2023.160. Epub 2023 Aug 17.

Authors

Helen L Zhang¹, Linda Crane², Andrea Lynn Cromer², Amanda Green², Polly Padgette², Valerie C Payne², Linda Roach², Brittain Wood², Deverick J Anderson^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Duke Center for Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Prevention, Division of Infectious Diseases, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina.
² Duke Infection Control Outreach Network, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina.

PMID: 37589089
DOI: 10.1017/ice.2023.160

Abstract

We calculated the attributable cost of several healthcare-associated infections in a community hospital network: central-line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs), catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs), hospital-onset Clostridioides difficile infections (CDI-HOs) (43 hospitals); surgical site infections (SSIs) (40 hospitals). From 2016 to 2022, the total cost of CLABSIs, CAUTIs, CDI-HOs, and SSIs was $420,012,025.

MeSH terms

Catheter-Related Infections* / epidemiology
Clostridium Infections* / epidemiology
Cross Infection* / epidemiology
Delivery of Health Care
Hospitals, Community
Humans
Southeastern United States / epidemiology
Surgical Wound Infection / epidemiology
Urinary Tract Infections*