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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2015 Jan;36(1):17–27. doi: 10.1017/ice.2014.12

Table 2.

Incremental cost per colonization and infection averted per 10,000 ICU admissions for alternative strategies using base case assumptions.

Strategy Total costs

(in millions)		 Disease
costs
(in millions)		 Intervention
costs
(in millions)		 Cases of
colonization
averted		 Cases of
infection
averted		 Incremental
cost per
colonization
averted		 Incremental
cost per
infection
averted
Universal decolonization $5.35 $4.57 $0.78 870 246 -- --
ASC testing plus selective decolonization $5.36 $4.83 $0.54 794 224 Dominated Dominated
Universal CHG $5.91 $5.65 $0.26 601 171 Dominated Dominated
UCP + decolonization $5.94 $3.62 $2.33 1,107 312 $2,469 $9,007
UCP + universal CHG $6.30 $4.49 $1.81 890 250 Dominated Dominated
ASC testing alone $6.56 $6.03 $0.53 521 144 Dominated Dominated
UCP alone $8.15 $6.58 $1.57 387 107 Dominated Dominated
Standard precautions $8.16 $8.16 -- -- -- Dominated Dominated
*

Under standard precautions, 1,989 and 544 cases of MRSA colonization and infection would occur, respectively.