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Study Shows Hospital Staph Infections Cause 12,000 Deaths,
Cost $9.5 Billion
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Article Title: “Study shows hospital staph infections cause 12,000 deaths,
cost $9.5 billion”
Source: The Doctors Lounge – Article by: Dr. Tamer Fouad, M.D.
Date: August 11, 2005
Contact Information: The Doctors Lounge, www.the doctorslounge.net
This article was based upon research done by Gary Noskin, MD, an infectious disease specialist at Northwestern Memorial Hospital and published in the Archives of Internal Medicine – August issue.
According to Dr. Noskin, the incidence and the cost of treating S. aureus is significant and that things can be done to reduce the number of HAI’s involving S. aureus.
Article Quotations:
Northwestern Memorial Data - 2004
- S.aureus was listed as a discharge diagnosis in 15 of all hospital stays – 292,045 stays/year
- Those patients with a S.aureus infection had an avg. of 3X the length of hospital stay (14.3 Days VS. 4.5 Days)
- These patients were charged three times the total charges of those patients without a A S.aureus infection ($48,824 vs. $14,141)
- HAI’s of S.aureus patients had 5X the risk of an in-hospital death
Extrapolated U.S. Data - 2004
- S.aureus stays in the hospital added 2.7 million extra days/year
- Those patients with a HAI of S.aureus cost taxpayers an additional $9.5 billion/year
- HAI of S.aureus resulted in the deaths of 12,000 patients/ year in the U.S.
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