The Cost of Responding to an Acinetobacter Outbreak in Critically Ill Surgical Patients
The Cost of Responding to an Acinetobacter Outbreak in Critically Ill Surgical Patients
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DOI:
10.1089/sur.2015.036
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发表时间:
2016-01-01
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2
通讯作者:
Jayaraman, Sudha P.
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作者:
Jiang, Yushan;Resch, Stephen;Jayaraman, Sudha P.
Background: Our institution had an outbreak of multi-drug-resistant Acinetobacter (MDRA) in 2011. We analyzed the costs of responding to this outbreak from the hospital's perspective. Methods: We estimated retrospectively the excess costs associated with an MDRA outbreak response at a major academic medical center, including the costs of staffing, supplies, administrative time, deep cleaning, and environmental testing. Differences in mean costs before and during the 2011 MDRA outbreak were analyzed using the Student t-test. Results: The overall excess cost incurred during the outbreak response was $371,079 in 2011 U.S. dollars. The largest contributors were the extra resources needed to staff and clean the two intensive care units (ICUs) (78%). In the general surgery ICU, the mean weekly cost of nursing during the outbreak was $13,276 more for regular hours (+15%; p