Authors
Jon Salmanton-García, Caroline Bruns, Jule Rutz, Markus Albertsmeier, Juliane Ankert, Louis Bernard, Camille Bataille, Elodie Couvé-Deacon, María Fernández-Ferrer, Jesús Fortún, Alicia Galar, Eva Grill, Thomas Guimard, Annika Y Classen, Jörg Janne Vehreschild, Jannik Stemler, Jan-Hendrik Naendrup, Jürgen Hampl, Bradly Tallon, Rosanne Sprute, Juan Pablo Horcajada, Joan Mollar-Maseres, Patricia Muñoz, Mathias W Pletz, Ferdinand Serracino-Inglott, Alex Soriano, Tim O Vilz, Harald Seifert, Oliver A Cornely, Sibylle C Mellinghoff, Blasius J Liss, Sebastian M Wingen-Heimann, Armelle Pegeot, Hélène Durand, Amandine Ménard, Antoine Potart, Chloé Porché, MC Hallouin-Bernard, Antonio V Moreno, Montserrat Solá, Raffaella Onori, Francesca Goia, Rosa Escudero, Hector Martínez-Morel, Mercedes Luján, Ricardo Pérez, Alice Panes, Karen Rhodes, Carolin EM Koll, Felix C Koehler, Florian B Cornely, Sofia Budin
Publication date
2024/5/1
Journal
Journal of Hospital Infection
Volume
147
Pages
123-132
Publisher
WB Saunders
Description
Background
Surgical site infections (SSIs), mainly caused by Staphylococcus aureus, pose a significant economic burden in Europe, leading to increased hospitalization duration, mortality, and treatment costs, particularly with drug-resistant strains such as meticillin-resistant S. aureus.
Aim
To conduct a case–control study on the economic impact of S. aureus SSI in adult surgical patients across high-volume centres in France, Germany, Spain, and the UK, aiming to assess the overall and procedure-specific burden across Europe.
Methods
The SALT study is a multinational, retrospective cohort study with a nested case–control analysis focused on S. aureus SSI in Europe. The study included participants from France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the UK who underwent invasive surgery in 2016 and employed a micro-costing approach to evaluate health economic factors, matching S. aureus SSI cases with controls …
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