Marginal increase in cost and excess length of stay associated with nosocomial bloodstream infections in surviving very low birth weight infants

NR Payne, JH Carpenter, GJ Badger, JD Horbar… - …, 2004 - publications.aap.org
Objective. Nosocomial bloodstream infections (NBIs) are associated with serious morbidity
and prolonged length of stay (LOS) in very low birth weight (VLBW) infants. However, the
marginal costs and excess LOS associated with these infections have never been measured
in different birth weight (BW) categories after adjustment for many of the potentially
confounding demographic variables, comorbidities, and treatments. The objective of this
study was to measure the marginal cost and excess LOS caused by NBIs in surviving VLBW …