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Costs of surgical site infections that appear after hospital discharge

  • Graves, N.
  • Halton, K.
  • Curtis, M.
  • Doidge, S.
  • Lairson, D.
  • McLaws, M.
  • Whitby, M.
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Publication date
May 2006
Icon DOI
10.3201/eid1205.051321
Publisher
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
ISSN
1080-6040
Citation count (estimate)
24

Abstract

Data were collected from surgical patients in the hospital and on 4 occasions postdischarge. The incidence of postdischarge surgical site infection was 8.46%. Strong evidence showed that these infections caused minor additional costs, which contradicts existing literature. We discuss why previous studies might have overstated costs

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