Correlation between case mix index and antibiotic use in hospitals | Zendy

Stefan P. Kuster | Zendy; C. Ruef | Zendy; A Bollinger | Zendy; Bruno Ledergerber | Zendy; A. Hintermann | Zendy; C. Deplazes | Zendy; L. Neuber | Zendy; Rainer Weber | Zendy

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Correlation between case mix index and antibiotic use in hospitals

Author(s) -

Stefan P. Kuster,

C. Ruef,

A Bollinger,

Bruno Ledergerber,

A. Hintermann,

C. Deplazes,

L. Neuber,

Rainer Weber

Publication year - 2008

Publication title -

journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.124

H-Index - 194

eISSN - 1460-2091

pISSN - 0305-7453

DOI - 10.1093/jac/dkn275

Subject(s) - medicine , case mix index , antibiotics , correlation , emergency medicine , intensive care medicine , index (typography) , pediatrics , nursing , microbiology and biotechnology , biology , geometry , mathematics , world wide web , computer science

To compare the quantitative antibiotic use between hospitals or hospital units and to explore differences, adjustment for severity of illness of hospitalized patients is essential. The case mix index (CMI) is an economic surrogate marker (i.e. the total cost weights of all inpatients per a defined time period divided by the number of admissions) to describe the average patients' morbidity of individual hospitals. We aimed to investigate the correlation between CMI and hospital antibiotic use.

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