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Medical and Economic Outcome<br />
• Excess expense of MRSA infection<br />
(compared to no infection) = $24,000<br />
– Actual cost data from 178 cases/5,796 controls<br />
• During first four years of NorthShore MRSA<br />
containment program avoided 406 infections<br />
– Net expense reduction = $8.8 million<br />
– Number of deaths avoided = 72<br />
LR Peterson, JCM 48:683-9, 2010<br />
LR Peterson et al, Jt Comm J Qual Patient Saf 33:732-8, 2007<br />
RM Klevens et al, JAMA 298:1763-71, 2007
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