Abstract
On the basis of a large outbreak of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium in a German university hospital, we estimated costs ( approximately 1 million Euros) that could have been avoided by early detection of the imminent outbreak. For this purpose, we demonstrate an easy-to-use statistical method.
MeSH terms
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Disease Outbreaks* / economics
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Disease Outbreaks* / prevention & control
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Enterococcus faecium / classification
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Enterococcus faecium / drug effects*
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Enterococcus faecium / isolation & purification
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Germany / epidemiology
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Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections / economics
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Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections / epidemiology*
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Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections / microbiology
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Hospitals, University
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Humans
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Models, Biological*
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Poisson Distribution
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Time Factors
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Vancomycin Resistance*