TABLE 3.

Hospital and annual US burden (in $millions) from each perspective

			Burden by perspective (in $ US millions)
Population	Incidence (per 1000 inpatients)	Number of cases	Hospital	Third-party payer	Societal
Hospital burdena
Hospital A	10.5	3334	30.6	33.7	49
Hospital B	8.3	915	8.3	9.3	13.5
Hospital C	4.9	1253	11.5	12.7	18.5
Hospital D	4.1	345	3.2	3.5	5.1
Hospital E	8.6	1404	12.9	14.2	20.7
Annual US burden
US Hospital inpatientsb	13.1	1443	13	15	21
Diagnosis of CDI (Patients	–	54 046	496	547	796
aged 65–84 years)c

Hospital perspective: 6-day CDI-attributable LOS and baseline secondary recurrence rate. Third-party payer perspective: baseline hospitalization cost. Societal perspective: baseline hospitalization cost and 6-day CDI-attributable LOS. Incidence trends for CDI for each hospital can be found in Dubberke et al.

^aSource: Dubberke et al. [18].

^bSource: Jarvis et al. [19].

^cSource: HCUP facts and figures: statistics on hospital-based care in the United States, 2008 [http://www.hcup-us.ahrq.gov/reports.jsp, 11].