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  • Title: Economic consequences of hospital infections in a 1,000-bed university hospital in Norway.
    Author: Andersen BM.
    Journal: Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol; 1998 Oct; 19(10):805-7. PubMed ID: 9801295.
    Abstract:
    Hospital infections were studied among 41,000 patients admitted to a 1,000-bed university hospital in Oslo, Norway. A prevalence rate of 8.5% in 1995 contributed to 14,500 days of extra stay in the hospital. The direct economic consequences of hospital infections was 40 to 50 million Norwegian kroner ($6-$7 million). The extra direct cost per infected patient was 14,300 Norwegian kroner ($2,200). Hospital infections are generating high extra costs and morbidity in countries with good general health care and with few problems with resistant bacteria.
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