Measuring the in-hospital costs of Pseudomonas aeruginosa pneumonia: methodology and results from a German teaching hospital

Table 1 Descriptive Statistics for cases of Pseudomonas aeruginosa pneumonia

	Hospital-acquired cases (HAP)		Community-acquired cases where the infection was not the main diagnosis (CAP)		Community-acquired cases where the infection was the main diagnosis (CAP)
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD
Costs (in €)	46,542.7	31,624.2	26,954.9	33,540.6	14,065.8	20,177.4
Reimbursement (in €)	40,453.5	29,537.1	23,122.0	28,216.1	13,712.7	22,011.3
Length of stay (in days)	35.95	22.78	21.13	19.15	15.47	12.74
Exposure time (in days)	24.28	95.91	0.84	2.86	4.25	15.49
Charlson Comorbidity Index (CCI)	4.01	3.00	3.57	3.09	2.38	2.69
Deaths (in %)	23%		21%		12%
Age (in years)	65.22	14.51	59.00	15.63	61.72	19.82
Female gender (in %)	28%		30%		56%
N	141		63		32

Details on patients with Pseudomonas aeruginosa pneumonia which were confirmed by microbiological review at a German University teaching hospital between 2011 and 2014. Categorization according to main diagnosis and exposure time (HAP: detected more than 48 h after admission)

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