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Surgical Site Infection After Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgery: Impact on Hospital Cost and Length of Stay

Friday, February 3, 2017

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CTSNet Staff

Source

Source Name: World Journal for Pediatric and Congenital Heart Surgery

Source URL: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/2150135116674467

Author(s)

Anthony A. Sochet, MD, MSHS, Alexander M. Cartron, BS, Aoibhinn Nyhan, BS, Michael C. Spaeder, MD, Xiaoyan Song, PhD, Anna T. Brown, MD, and Darren Klugman, MD

A retrospective, matched cohort study to determine attributable hospital costs associated with surgical site infection after pediatric cardiothoracic surgery was performed. Of the 981 surgical cases within the study period, 12 with surgical site infection were identified. Compared to individually matched controls, children with surgical site infection had an associated increase in hospital costs of $136,950/case and hospital length of stay of 9.5 days/case. These data stress the importance of infection surveillance and prevention.