Costs versus earnings in colon surgery and coronary artery bypass grafting under a prospective payment system: Sufficient financial incentives to reduce surgical site infections?. (22nd August 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Juchler, Fabrice; Roth, Jan A.; Schweiger, Alexander; Dangel, Marc; Gugliotta, Massimo; Battegay, Manuel; Eckstein, Friedrich S.; Kettelhack, Christoph; Abshagen, Christian; Hug, Balthasar L.; Boyce, John M.; Widmer, Andreas F.
• Is Part Of: Infection control and hospital epidemiology. Volume 39:Number 10(2018)
• Page Start: 1246
• Page End: 1249
• Publication Date: 2018-08-22
• Subjects: Nosocomial infections -- Epidemiology -- Periodicals; Health facilities -- Sanitation -- Periodicals; Hospital buildings -- Sanitation -- Periodicals; Cross Infection -- Periodicals; Epidemiology -- Periodicals; Hospitals -- Periodicals; Infection Control -- Periodicals; 614.44
• DOI: 10.1017/ice.2018.179
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0899-823X

Abstract

Abstract: Based on a surgical site infection (SSI) cohort at an academic center, we showed a median potentially preventable loss per non-SSI case of $17, 916 in colon surgery and of $34, 741 in coronary artery bypass grafting.