[Liam Lahert]

Hi Lenora,

I’ve attached some of the articles I’ve seen in relation to costs of HCAI that included SSI, they may or may not be useful.

The first is an INMO article from 2014 that referenced a cost of $10,400 to treat SSI’s. They don’t show the reference but have an e-mail at the bottom to request the reference.

The second is a UK Department of Health report that has a table with figures of SSI cost on page 8. They refer to them as surgical wound infections (SWI) in the report.

And the last one is a US report that gives a figure of $10,443 – $25,546 per surgical site infection.

Hope that’s of some help.

I don’t have a reference to hand for the ratio of IPCN per inpatient bed for Ireland but have definitely seen one before. I’m not sure if it was from HIQA? But I remember seeing 1 IPCN per 100 beds from 2017 or 2018, and in 2020 of 1 IPCN per 75 to 100 beds.

Kind regards,

Liam

• This reply was modified 7 months ago by Liam Lahert.

Attachments:

1. INMO-Infection-control-Concerning-infections.pdf
2. dh-costs-of-HCAI-UK-report-2009.pdf
3. Scott-2009-Cost-of-infection-1.pdf

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