INCREMENTAL COST OF DISEASE IN NOSOCOMIAL PNEUMONIA FROM A HOSPITAL’S PERSPECTIVE - A FEASIBILITY STUDY
Author(s)
Dietrich ES 1, Hug S 1, Mast O 2, Schulgen G 3, Daschner F 1, 1Institute of Environmental Medicine and Hospital Epidemiology, University Hospital, Freiburg, Germany; 2Health Economics and Outcomes Research, Bayer Vital, Leverkusen, Germany; 3Institute of Biometry and Medical Informatics, University Hospital, Freiburg, Germany
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the feasibility of different methodologies for a prospective matched-pair design study on incremental daily cost of disease for patients with nosocomial pneumonia (NP) from a hospital’s perspective. METHOD: Adult patients newly admitted to three ICUs with
Conference/Value in Health Info
1998-12, ISPOR Europe 1998, Cologne, Germany
Value in Health, Vol. 2, No. 1 (January/February 1999)
Code
PP3
Topic
Economic Evaluation
Topic Subcategory
Cost/Cost of Illness/Resource Use Studies
Disease
Infectious Disease (non-vaccine)