The costs of septic syndromes in the intensive care unit and influence of hospital-acquired sepsis.

Abstract:

OBJECTIVE:To document the costs and outcomes of the various forms of the septic syndromes [systemic inflammatory response syndrome (SIRS), sepsis, severe sepsis, septic shock), particularly those associated with infection acquired in an intensive care unit (ICU). DESIGN:Prospective data collection for all septic patients admitted to a medical ICU during a 1-year period. Costs were computed from the viewpoint of the hospital. RESULTS:Mean total hospital costs were Euro 26,256, Euro 35,185, and Euro 27,083 for patients with sepsis, severe sepsis, and septic shock, respectively. Total costs varied slightly according to the site of infection and the severity of sepsis but were influenced mostly by its mode of acquisition: patients having sepsis associated with ICU-acquired infection incurred total costs about three times those of patients presenting with infection and sepsis on ICU admission (from Euro 39,908 in patients with ICU acquired sepsis to Euro 44,851 in patients with ICU-acquired septic shock). Stratifying patients by the presence of ICU-acquired infection also showed that a first episode of infection complicated by ICU-acquired sepsis incurred at least 2.5 times more costs than a single episode of sepsis. CONCLUSIONS:In this series the medical costs of sepsis were not markedly influenced by its severity but by its mode of acquisition. Due to wide variations in ICU costs cost-effectiveness analyses of treatments for sepsis should document the case-mix of patients and the contribution to this of nosocomial infections.

journal_name

Intensive Care Med

journal_title

Intensive care medicine

authors

Brun-Buisson C,Roudot-Thoraval F,Girou E,Grenier-Sennelier C,Durand-Zaleski I

doi

10.1007/s00134-003-1877-x

keywords:

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2003-09-01 00:00:00

pages

1464-71

issue

9

eissn

0342-4642

issn

1432-1238

journal_volume

29

pub_type

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