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Daily antibiotic cost of nosocomial infections in a Turkish university hospital by Dilara Inan; Rabin Saba; Filiz Gunseren; Gozde Ongut; Ozge Turhan; Ata Nevzat Yalcin; Latife Mamikoglu is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
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## Background Many studies associated nosocomial infections with increased hospital costs due to extra days in hospital, staff time, extra investigations and drug treatment. The cost of antibiotic treatment for these infections represents a significant part of hospital expenditure. This prospective observational study was designed to determine the daily antibiotic cost of nosocomial infections per infected adult patient in Akdeniz University Hospital. ## Methods All adult patients admitted to the ICUs between January 1, 2000, and June 30, 2003 who had only one nosocomial infection during their stay were included in the study. Infection sites and pathogens, antimicrobial treatment of patient and it's cost were recorded. Daily antibiotic costs were calculated per infected patient. ## Results Among the 8460 study patients, 817 (16.6%) developed 1407 episodes of nosocomial infection. Two hundred thirty three (2.7%) presented with only one nosocomial infection. Mean daily antibiotic cost was $89.64. Daily antibiotic cost was $99.02 for pneumonia, $94.32 for bloodstream infection, $94.31 for surgical site infection, $52.37 for urinary tract infection, and $162.35 for the other infections
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- Author
- Dilara Inan; Rabin Saba; Filiz Gunseren; Gozde Ongut; Ozge Turhan; Ata Nevzat Yalcin; Latife Mamikoglu
- Publisher
- BioMed Central; Springer (Biomed Central Ltd.); London: BioMed Central, 2001-; Springer Science and Business Media LLC; Society for Mining, Metallurgy and Exploration Inc. (ISSN 1471-2334)
- Published
- 2005
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)