Study reveals half of infection deaths linked to care
Infection Control Weekly Monitor, February 24, 2010
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A study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine found that sepsis and pneumonia killed 48,000 patients and added $8.1 billion to healthcare costs in 2006.
The study looked at 69 million discharge records from hospitals in 40 states from 1998 to 2006. Principle investigator Ramanan Laxminarayan told the Wall Street Journal that this is the first study to link about half of all infection deaths directly to infections acquired during the course of care.
One of the major obstacles in preventing these infections is administrative buy-in, Laxminarayan says. “Even when physicians are gung-ho to do something about infection control, they may not have buy-in from hospital administrators,” he told the WSJ. “They may still ask why do you need $500,000 if it isn’t going to do anything for the bottom line?”
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