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Estimating the excess bed days and economic burden of healthcare-associated infections in Singapore public acute-care hospitals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 May 2021

Yiying Cai Open the ORCID record for Yiying Cai [Opens in a new window] ,
Indumathi Venkatachalam ,
Andrea L. Kwa ,
Paul A. Tambyah ,
Li Yang Hsu ,
Kalisvar Marimuthu  and
Nicholas Graves
Yiying Cai
Affiliation:
Department of Pharmacy, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore
Indumathi Venkatachalam
Affiliation:
Department of Infectious Diseases, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore
Andrea L. Kwa
Affiliation:
Department of Pharmacy, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore Emerging Infectious Diseases, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore SingHealth Duke–NUS Medicine Academic Clinical Programme, Singapore
Paul A. Tambyah
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, National University Health Systems, Singapore Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Li Yang Hsu
Affiliation:
Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore and National University Health Systems, Singapore
Kalisvar Marimuthu
Affiliation:
Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore Department of Infectious Diseases, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore HAI Surveillance Unit, National Centre for Infectious Diseases, Singapore
Nicholas Graves*
Affiliation:
Program in Health Services and Systems Research, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore
*
Author for correspondence: Nicholas Graves, E-mail: n.graves@duke-nus.edu.sg
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Abstract

We estimated the annual bed days lost and economic burden of healthcare-associated infections to Singapore hospitals using Monte Carlo simulation. The mean (standard deviation) cost of a single healthcare-associated infection was S$1,809 (S$440) [or US$1,362 (US$331)]. This translated to annual lost bed days and economic burden of 55,978 (20,506) days and S$152.0 million (S$37.1 million) [or US$114.4 million (US$27.9 million)], respectively.

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 43 , Issue 9 , September 2022 , pp. 1245 - 1248
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© The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America

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