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Cost-Utility Analysis Applied to the Treatment of Burn Patients in a Specialized Center

2007

Objective To discover the total costs and quality of life of burn patients in a specialist center classified by diagnosis-related groups (DRGs). Design Prospective study of 5-year follow-up from January 1, 1997, through December 31, 2001. Setting Burn Center of Valencia. Patients A total of 898 patients treated at the Burn Center of Valencia. Main Outcome Measures Hospital, extrahospital, caregiving, labor, and social costs of the burn patients grouped by DRG (code 457: extensive burns without operating room procedure; code 458: nonextensive burns with skin graft; code 459: nonextensive burns with wound debridement or other operating room procedure; code 460: nonextensive burns without oper…

AdultMalemedicine.medical_specialtyAdolescentTotal costBurn UnitsAllied Health PersonnelQuality of lifeOutcome Assessment Health CareHealth caremedicineHumansChildProspective cohort studyDiagnosis-Related Groupshealth care economics and organizationsAgedCost–utility analysisCost–benefit analysisbusiness.industryBurn centerHealth Care CostsLength of StayMiddle AgedSurgeryHospitalizationSpainCosts and Cost AnalysisQuality of LifeLife expectancyFemaleSurgeryBurnsbusinessArchives of Surgery
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Dispersal of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in a burn intensive care unit.

2003

Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a pathogen of special concern in intensive care units (ICUs). The burn units are a very susceptible habitat to colonization and infection events by this organism. In this paper isolation of MRSA from a sepsis case and from samples of the care unit air is described, along with simultaneous circulation of two clones of MRSA. Some peculiar epidemiological features of MRSA in burn intensive care wards are confirmed.

Cross InfectionIntensive Care UnitsStaphylococcus aureusBurn UnitsHumansMethicillin Resistancemethicillin resistant staphylococcus aureusStaphylococcal InfectionsSettore MED/42 - Igiene Generale E ApplicataBurnsAnnali di igiene : medicina preventiva e di comunita
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Infections caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa: relatively frequent isolation of serogroup 12 from clinical specimens.

1985

Serological typing of P. aeruginosa is the most simple and reliable procedure recommended for ≪ in-house ≫ investigations and for studies of suspected outbreaks of infection by this microorganism. It is also a useful procedure in order to know serotype prevalence in a definite geografical area and to obtain indications about the more appropriate composition of polivalent anti-Pseudomonas vaccines. In the present report, we describe the relatively high frequency of isolation of serogroup 12 from patients in Palermo, Italy. Serogroup 12 is very rare in north-Europe and in the USA, and, as a consequence, it is not included in some vaccine preparations. In Palermo, strains belonging to this ser…

Serotypemedicine.medical_specialtyIsolation (health care)Pseudomonas VaccinesEpidemiologymedicine.drug_classAntibioticsBurn Unitsmedicine.disease_causeMicrobiologySerologyEpidemiologymedicineHumansSurgical Wound InfectionPseudomonas InfectionsTypingVaccines CombinedSerotypingRespiratory Tract InfectionsPseudomonas aeruginosabusiness.industryOutbreakVirologyItalyBacterial VaccinesPseudomonas aeruginosaUrinary Tract InfectionsbusinessBurnsEuropean journal of epidemiology
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