Burden of Six Healthcare-Associated Infections on European Population Health: Estimating Incidence-Based Disability-Adjusted Life Years through a Population Prevalence-Based Modelling Study

Cassini, Alessandro; Plachouras, Diamantis; Eckmanns, Tim; Abu Sin, Muna; Blank, Hans-Peter; Ducomble, Tanja; Haller, Sebastian; Harder, Thomas; Klingeberg, Anja; Sixtensson, Madlen; Velasco, Edward; Weiß, Bettina; Kramarz, Piotr; L. Monnet, Dominique; Kretzschmar, Mirjam; Suetens, C.

doi:10.1371/journal.pmed.1002150

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Burden of Six Healthcare-Associated Infections on European Population Health: Estimating Incidence-Based Disability-Adjusted Life Years through a Population Prevalence-Based Modelling Study

Published in PLoS Medicine • Oct 18, 2016

Authors:

Alessandro Cassini

Diamantis Plachouras

Tim Eckmanns

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Estimating the burden of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) compared to other communicable diseases is an ongoing challenge given the need for good quality data on the incidence of these infections and the involved comorbidities. Based on the methodology of the Burden of Communicabl...

Subject

Medicine

European union

Incidence (geometry)

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