Costs of hospital-acquired Clostridium difficile infections: an analysis on the effect of time-dependent exposures using routine and surveillance data

Costs of hospital-acquired Clostridium difficile infections: an analysis on the effect of time-dependent exposures using routine and surveillance data

Abstract Background Hospital-acquired infections have not only gained increasing attention clinically, but also methodologically, as a time-varying exposure. While methods to appropriately estimate extra length of stay (LOS) have been established and are increasingly used in the literature, proper e...

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Main Authors: Thomas Heister, Martin Wolkewitz, Philip Hehn, Jan Wolff, Markus Dettenkofer, Hajo Grundmann, Klaus Kaier
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-08-01
Series:Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation
Subjects:
Hospital-acquired infections
Time-varying exposures
Time-dependent bias
Costs
Clostridium difficile
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12962-019-0184-5

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