HAIs cost patients additional $43,000 per hospital stay

Patients with HAIs cost, on average, $43,000 more per hospital stay than those without an infection ($52,096 vs. $9,377).

Lucado J, Paez K, Andrews R, Steiner C. Adult Hospital Stays with Infections Due to Medical Care, 2007. Statistical Brief. August 2010; 94. http://www.hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports/statbriefs/sb94.pdf

Majority of physicians treated patient with at least 1 drug-resistant infection
63% of surveyed infectious disease physicians treated a patient with at least one drug-resistant infection in 2011. 56% believed those infections to be on the rise. [ Get More Details ]
Around $35 billion cost to society from antibiotic resistant infections
The societal costs of antibiotic resistant infections are around $35 billion each year- this includes the cost of lost wages and premature deaths. [ Get More Details ]
Sepsis accounts for 17% of in-hospital deaths
In 2008, only 2% of hospitalization were for sepsis/septicemia, yet they made up 17% of in-hospital deaths. [ Get More Details ]
Hospital stays longer when HAIs involved
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Source of 99,000 annual deaths from HAIs
Of the 99,000 annual deaths from HAIs: 35,967 are from pneumonia 30,665 are from bloodstream infections 13,088 are from urinary tract infections 8,205 are from surgical site infections; and 11,062 are from infections at other… [ Get More Details ]