• Media type: E-Article
  • Title: Costs versus earnings in colon surgery and coronary artery bypass grafting under a prospective payment system: Sufficient financial incentives to reduce surgical site infections?
  • Contributor: Juchler, Fabrice; Roth, Jan A.; Schweiger, Alexander; Dangel, Marc; Gugliotta, Massimo; Battegay, Manuel; Eckstein, Friedrich S.; Kettelhack, Christoph; Abshagen, Christian; Hug, Balthasar L.; Boyce, John M.; Widmer, Andreas F.
  • imprint: Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2018
  • Published in: Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology
  • Language: English
  • DOI: 10.1017/ice.2018.179
  • ISSN: 1559-6834; 0899-823X
  • Keywords: Infectious Diseases ; Microbiology (medical) ; Epidemiology
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  • Description: <jats:title>Abstract</jats:title><jats:p>Based on a surgical site infection (SSI) cohort at an academic center, we showed a median potentially preventable loss per non-SSI case of $17,916 in colon surgery and of $34,741 in coronary artery bypass grafting.</jats:p>