Volume 7, Number 2—April 2001
THEME ISSUE
4th Decennial International Conference on Nosocomial and Healthcare-Associated Infections
State of the Art
Economic Impact of Antimicrobial Resistance
John E. McGowan
Table 3
Examples of studies of economic impact of resistance published in 1999-2000
| Year | First author (ref.) | Study methods | Features measured |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Soriano (9) | Case-control, cohort | Death, length of hospital stay |
| 2000 | Roghmann (10) | Cohort | Mortality rates at 7 and 30 days, length of hospital stay, direct health-care costs |
| 2000 | Vanhems (11) | Cohort | Death |
| 2000 | Simor (12) | Comparison of cases with arbitrary criteria | Incremental length of hospital stay |
| 2000 | Harthug (13) | Case-control | Death |
| 2000 | Bhavnani (14) | Case-control | Death |
| 2000 | Feikin (15) | Cohort | Death |
| 2000 | Garbutt (16) | Retrospective cohort | Death |
| 1999 | Carmeli (17) | Cohort | Death, length of hospital stay, hospital charges |
| 1999 | Rubin (18) | Modeling, assumption and extrapolation from case reports | Death, direct medical costs |
| 1999 | Weingarten (19) | Case-control | Use of ventilators, length of hospital stay, duration and number of antimicrobial agents, hospital and pharmacy charges |
| 1999 | Gonzalez (20) | Cohort | death |
| 1999 | Abramson (21) | Case-control | Length of hospital stay, attributable median total cost |
