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Comparative Cost of Selective Screening To Prevent Transmission of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), Compared With the Attributable Costs of MRSA Infection.

Gavalda L, Masuet C, Beltran J, Garcia M, Garcia D, Sirvent JM, Ramon JM

L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain. lgavalda@csub.scs.es.

The annual cost of a screening program to detect methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in a teaching hospital in Spain was euro10,261. The average cost per MRSA infection was euro2,730; therefore, the cost of the program would be covered if it only prevented 4 infections per year (11% of the total number of MRSA infections at our hospital).

Published 2 November 2006 in Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol, 27(11): 1264-6.
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