Costs versus earnings in colon surgery and coronary artery bypass grafting under a prospective payment system: Sufficient financial incentives to reduce surgical site infections?

2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (10) ◽  
pp. 1246-1249
Author(s):  
Fabrice Juchler ◽  
Jan A. Roth ◽  
Alexander Schweiger ◽  
Marc Dangel ◽  
Massimo Gugliotta ◽  
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AbstractBased on a surgical site infection (SSI) cohort at an academic center, we showed a median potentially preventable loss per non-SSI case of $17,916 in colon surgery and of $34,741 in coronary artery bypass grafting.

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