Increasing Incidence, Cost, and Seasonality in Patients Hospitalized for Cellulitis

Using data from the National Inpatient Sample, 1998–2013, we show that hospitalizations for cellulitis have approximately doubled. Costs increased by 118% to $3.74 billion annually. In addition, hospitalizations for cellulitis are highly seasonal, peaking in summer months: incidence during the peak...

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Autores principales: Peterson, Ryan A., Polgreen, Linnea A., Cavanaugh, Joseph E., Polgreen, Philip M.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2017
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Brief Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5414024/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28480281
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofx008
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description Using data from the National Inpatient Sample, 1998–2013, we show that hospitalizations for cellulitis have approximately doubled. Costs increased by 118% to $3.74 billion annually. In addition, hospitalizations for cellulitis are highly seasonal, peaking in summer months: incidence during the peak month of July is 35% higher than in February.
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spelling pubmed-54140242017-05-05 Increasing Incidence, Cost, and Seasonality in Patients Hospitalized for Cellulitis Peterson, Ryan A. Polgreen, Linnea A. Cavanaugh, Joseph E. Polgreen, Philip M. Open Forum Infect Dis Brief Report Using data from the National Inpatient Sample, 1998–2013, we show that hospitalizations for cellulitis have approximately doubled. Costs increased by 118% to $3.74 billion annually. In addition, hospitalizations for cellulitis are highly seasonal, peaking in summer months: incidence during the peak month of July is 35% higher than in February. Oxford University Press 2017-02-08 /pmc/articles/PMC5414024/ /pubmed/28480281 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofx008 Text en © The Author 2017. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Infectious Diseases Society of America. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial reproduction and distribution of the work, in any medium, provided the original work is not altered or transformed in any way, and that the work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com
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