The economic burden of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in community-onset pneumonia inpatients

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• 作者：Hironori Uematsu ; MD ; MPH^a ; Kazuto Yamashita ; MD ; PhD^a ; Susumu Kunisawa ; MD ; PhD^a ; Kiyohide Fushimi ; MD ; PhD^b ; Yuichi Imanaka ; MD ; PhD^a ; ^{imanaka-y@umin.net}
• 关键词：MRSA ; Clinical and economic burden ; Propensity score matching ; Infection
• 刊名：American Journal of Infection Control
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：1 December 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：44
• 期：12
• 页码：1628-1633
• 全文大小：319 K
• 卷排序：44

文摘

This study quantified the burden of community-onset MRSA pneumonia inpatients. Hospitalization costs of the MRSA group were 1.7 times that of the control group. The strengths of this study were the large sample size and detailed risk adjustments.