Table 10.

Published data on the economic costs associated with surgical site infection

Source	Country	Procedure	Range	Mean
Riose et al. (10)	Spain*	Appendicectomy	€1881–2057
Rios et al. (10)	Spain*	Colectomy	€6406–8141
Plowman et al. (6)	UK	Inter‐disciplinary		€2370
Reilly et al. (28)	UK†	Inter‐disciplinary		€600
Geubbels et al. (14)	Netherlands†	Inter‐disciplinary	€900–2700
Garcia and Salto (95)	Spain*	Inter‐disciplinary		€2400
Coello et al. (5)	UK*	Inter‐disciplinary		€1900
Kappstein et al. (83)	Germany	Cardiac		€3010

^* Surgical site infection.

^† Surgical site infection, clean only.

‡Surgical site infection, 17 procedures identified.