Costs attributable to healthcare-acquired infection in hospitalized adults and a comparison of economic methods.

Background: Hospitals will increasingly bear the costs for healthcare-acquired conditions such as infection. Our goals were to estimate the costs attributable to healthcare-acquired infection (HAI) and conduct a sensitivity analysis comparing analytic methods.

Methods: A random sample of high-risk adults hospitalized in the year 2000 was selected.

Hospital and societal costs of antimicrobial-resistant infections in a Chicago teaching hospital: implications for antibiotic stewardship.

Background: Organisms resistant to antimicrobials continue to emerge and spread. This study was performed to measure the medical and societal cost attributable to antimicrobial-resistant infection (ARI).

Methods: A sample of high-risk hospitalized adult patients was selected.

Characteristics of patient care management problems identified in emergency department morbidity and mortality investigations during 15 years.

Study Objective: We describe cases referred for physician review because of concern about quality of patient care and identify factors that contributed to patient care management problems.

Methods: We performed a retrospective review of 636 cases investigated by an emergency department physician review committee at an urban public teaching hospital over a 15-year period. At referral, cases were initially investigated and analyzed, and specific patient care management problems were noted.