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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

Appendix B.

Incremental cost per colonization and infection averted per 10,000 ICU admissions for alternative strategies under assumption that MRSA prevalence is 20%.

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 $6.57 $5.73 $0.84 1,752 543 -- --
UCP + universal decolonization $6.81 $4.17 $2.64 2,079 644 $719 $2,329
ASC testing plus selective decolonization $7.68 $6.97 $0.71 1,513 468 Dominated Dominated
UCP + universal CHG $8.25 $6.13 $2.12 1,601 513 Dominated Dominated
Universal CHG $8.48 $8.18 $0.30 1,183 377 Dominated Dominated
ASC testing alone $10.91 $10.21 $0.70 817 261 Dominated Dominated
UCP alone $12.94 $11.08 $1.86 596 192 Dominated Dominated
Standard precautions $13.95 $13.95 -- -- -- Dominated Dominated