Monetary Cost of Nosocomial Infections in a Tertiary Healthcare Institution in North-Western Nigeria: A retrospective study.
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2016
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Published by Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Maiduguri
Abstract
Study on the monetary cost of bacterial nosocomial infections in the paediatric wards of a University Teaching Hospital in the North West of
Nigeria was carried out. The study was done retrospectively by analysing all the reported cases of patients with bacterial infections admitted
into the paediatric wards of the hospital as contained in their case files, over a period of one year (January 2010-December 2010,). The
following information was retrieved; age, sex, clinical diagnosis on admission, duration of hospital stay, bacterial infection diagnosed,
laboratory data and the antibiotics used with their costs. The cases of bacterial nosocomial infections were established when patients have
infections not present or incubating at the time of admission to the hospital or a positive bacterial culture from a focus of infection had on
repeat culture from the same focus a different bacterial agent. The data collected were statistically analyzed using SPSS version 17.0.
Comparisons were made between mean duration of hospital stay, costs of antibiotics and laboratory investigations of patients with various
clinical forms of bacterial nosocomial infections, and duration of hospital stay of patients, costs of antibiotics and laboratory investigations
of patients with similar clinical forms of non-nosocomial (community-acquired) bacterial infections. The results showed that a total of 109
out of 1002 patients acquired hospital infections this represent 10.88%. The total cost of managing these hospital acquired infections was
estimated at N2, 009, 610.00. The mean cost of antibiotics for managing the Nosocomial infections was greater than that for non-
nosocomial infections and this difference between the two groups was statistically significant (p<0.001). The mean cost of laboratory
investigations for patients with nosocomial infection was higher than that of patients with non-nosocomial infections. However, the
difference was not statistically significant (p>0.05). The mean cost of accommodation for patients with nosocomial infections was also
higher.
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Cost of nosocomial, infections, antibiotics in nosomial, Length of Hospital
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RF Atata, AA Hamidu, AA Akanbi, A Giwa, AA Abdulwahab (2016): Monetary Cost of Nosocomial Infections in a Tertiary Healthcare Institution in North-Western Nigeria: A retrospective study. Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical research, 1(1); 62-66, Published by Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Maiduguri