In
US:
§CRBSI:
350,000 patients per year
§Mortality
rate: 12% to 25%
§Extra-hospital
stay : 5 to 20 days per CRBSI
§Extra-costs
: $34,000- $56,000 per CRBSI
§Annual
costs: $2.3 billion
Stone PW, et
al. Am J Infect Control. 2005;33:542-547.
Perencevich EN, et al. Infect
Control Hosp Epidemiol 2007; 28:1121-33.
§More
than 50% of CRBSI may be preventable.
Harbarth S, et
al. J
Hosp Infect. 2003;54:258-266.