Estimands to quantify prolonged hospital stay associated with nosocomial infections

Estimands to quantify prolonged hospital stay associated with nosocomial infections

Abstract Background Length of stay evaluations are very common to determine the burden of nosocomial infections. However, there exist fundamentally different methods to quantify the prolonged length of stay associated with nosocomial infections. Previous methodological studies emphasized the need to...

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Main Authors: Martin Wolkewitz, Martin Schumacher, Gerta Rücker, Stephan Harbarth, Jan Beyersmann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-05-01
Series:BMC Medical Research Methodology
Subjects:
Multi-state model
Hospital-acquired infections
Sojourn time
Length of hospital stay
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12874-019-0752-6

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