Abstract

RIVERO LLONCH, Lucila; ALVAREZ SANCHEZ, Aleida Zaida; DELGADO FERNANDEZ, Caridad  and  PEREZ DIAZ, Brenda. Hospital infections: Overadded expense due to the use of parenteral antibiotics. Analysis of the 4-year-period 2000-2003 . Rev Cubana Obstet Ginecol [online]. 2005, vol.31, n.2, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1561-3062.

Year after year hospital costs increase considerably due to the rise of infections associated with procedures in health institutions. It is an unquestionable indicator of the quality of care. A descriptive and retrospective study was conducted to analyze hospital infections in our center, the global rates and the rates by services, the circulating germs and the microbial maps of the 3-year-period. 284 medical histories from patients with hospital infections were analyzed searching for the used antibiotic therapy. The expenses in injectable antibiotics were calculated in these cases. It was concluded that in 3 years, the most common germs were the Enterobacteria, the BNF and the Staphylococcus. Penicillim was the most resistant antibiotic. The services with the highest consumption of injectable antibiotics were the Gynecology Service in the year 2000, and the Obstetrics Service in 2001, 2002 and 2003. The expense in injectable antibiotics, in the septic cases, was as follows: 2000: $13493.09; 2001: $20547.32; 2002: $24842.62; and 2003: $14850.05.

Keywords : hospital costs; hospital infections.

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