Comparison of costs of surgical site infection and endometritis after cesarean delivery using claims and medical record data.
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We used administrative and clinical data from a case-control study to calculate the costs of surgical site infection and endometritis after cesarean delivery. Attributable costs determined by multivariate generalized least-squares regression models with the 2 data sets were similar, suggesting that administrative data can be used to calculate infection costs.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Infection control and hospital epidemiology
دوره 31 8 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2010