Hospital costs associated with nosocomial infections in a pediatric intensive care unit

• Egile Nagusiak: Áurea Morillo-García (Egilea), Josefa M. Aldana-Espinal (Egilea), Antonio Olry de Labry-Lima (Egilea), Raquel Valencia-Martín (Egilea), Reyes López-Márquez (Egilea), Mercedes Loscertales-Abril (Egilea), Manuel Conde-Herrera (Egilea)
• Formatua: Liburua
• Argitaratua: Elsevier, 2015-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Gaiak: article
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Objective: To estimate the additional cost attributable to nosocomial infection (NI) in a pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) and related factors. Methods: A prospective cohort study was conducted in all children admitted to the PICU of a tertiary-care pediatric hospital between 2008 and 2009. Desc...