Table 5.

Mortality, Cost, and Length of Stay of Patients With Hospital-Acquired Infections

	Control	Sepsis	Pneumonia	Staphylococcus	Clostridium difficile
No. (%) of patients	148 888	2955 (1.59)	2479 (1.59)	3803 (2.44)	768 (0.49)
Mortality, %
Overall	1.99	21.2	10.6	7.91	7.27
Blunt trauma	2.09	23.0	12.4	9.10	8.38
Motor vehicle accident	2.03	17.1	7.34	6.36	0.75
Gunshot wound	1.99	15.7	10.6	6.86	5.26
Stab wound	0.50	8.0	3.23	0.44	7.14
Pedestrian trauma	1.82	18.3	9.84	6.71	6.38
Low fall	1.99	30.3	19.9	11.8	10.5
Cost, $, median
Overall	12 849	60 398	77 393	47 908	33 294
Blunt trauma	11 515	45 046	70 551	33 759	26 225
Motor vehicle accident	17 729	86 290	82 997	74 830	65 754
Gunshot wound	18 213	93 770	87 045	73 677	47 489
Stab wound	12 111	49 767	61 641	10 196	27 984
Pedestrian trauma	19 384	99 037	86 025	79 597	90 691
Low fall	10 270	36 229	55 945	24 670	21 276
Length of stay, d, median
Overall	6	20	24	17	16
Blunt trauma	6	17	23	15	14
Motor vehicle accident	6	25	25	23	22
Gunshot wound	7	29	26	24	17
Stab wound	5	20	22	7	12
Pedestrian trauma	7	29	27	25	30
Low fall	5	15	30	13	13