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Published in: Critical Care 4/2006

01-08-2006 | Commentary

Attributable cost of methicillin resistance: an issue that is difficult to evaluate

Author: Jean-François Timsit

Published in: Critical Care | Issue 4/2006

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Abstract

Estimating the consequences and the cost of methicillin resistance is a difficult challenge. Patients who develop methicillin-resistant ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) are very different from those who develop methicillin-sensitive VAP, and biased estimates are frequent. We reviewed some important confounding factors of which the reader should be aware.
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Metadata
Title
Attributable cost of methicillin resistance: an issue that is difficult to evaluate
Author
Jean-François Timsit
Publication date
01-08-2006
Publisher
BioMed Central
Published in
Critical Care / Issue 4/2006
Electronic ISSN: 1364-8535
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/cc4994

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