Table 2.

Surplus expenditure in MDRO

Resistant Organism	Control	Range of Excess Cost
MRSA	MSSA	$695–$29,030
Vancomycin resistant Enterococcus	Vancomycin susceptible Enterococcus	$16,711–$60,988
Resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa	Susceptible P. aeruginosa	$627–$45,256
Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii	Susceptible A.baumannii	$5336–$126,856
Multiple organisms	Susceptible	$9372–$18,990
ESBL producing Enterobacteriaceae	Non-ESBL producing Enterobacteriaceae	$3658–$4892

ESBL Extended β lactamases; MRSA Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus; MSSA Methicillin sensitive Staphylococcus aureus