Related Stories. 1  Your guide to the 2012 total solar eclipse, Science Online, 07 Nov 2012. ' 2 Ring of fire' eclipse dims northern skies, Science Online, 21 May 2012. 3  Ancient Aborigines understood eclipses, Science Online, 15 Jun 2011.  Asia darkens under longest solar eclipse, Science Online, 22 Jul 2009.
Reports from Mexican ICUs estimated the overall average cost of a HAIs episode at $12,155 with an excess cost of $11,591 per case of CR-BSI (1). In several ICUs in Argentina, the overall extra cost estimates for CR-BSI and healthcare-associated pneumonia averaged $4,888 and $2,255 per case, respectively (1).
They found: 1  The incremental costs incurred by patients on their last full day of hospital stay were $420 per day on average, or just 2.4 percent of the $17,734 average total cost.2  End-of-stay costs represented only a slightly higher percentage of total costs when the length of stay was as short as four days. The remaining 58 percent was hospital overhead. 2  The first day of admission cost $1,246 on average, while the cost of discharging a patient averaged $304. 3  Approximately 40 percent of the costs were incurred during the first 3 days.