Objectives: The objectives of the research were to determine which intravenous (IV) antibiotics were cost-effective in Diabetic Foot Infections (DFIs) and to assess the impact of MRSA prevalence on clinical outcome.
Methods: A Cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) was performed on IV antibiotics used to treat moderate to severe DFIs in hospitalized patients. MRSA prevalence was taken into account by calculating an ‘Adjusted cure rate’ and re-analysing the CEA.
Results: In the original CEA, imipenem/cilastatin was the cost-effective agent. When MRSA prevalence was taken into account imipenem/cilastatin, moxifloxacin, cefoxitin and ertapenem were cost-effective antibiotics.
Conclusion: MRSA prevalence adjustments changed the results of the CEA and included classes of IV antibiotics that are seen being using in practice, such as fluoroquinolones and cephalosporins. These methods could potentially have an impact on the evaluation of clinical cure rates and resistance when evaluating the literature.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:TORONTO/oai:tspace.library.utoronto.ca:1807/33439 |
| Date | 22 November 2012 |
| Creators | Marchesano, Romina |
| Contributors | Einarson, Thomas Ray |
| Source Sets | University of Toronto |
| Language | en_ca |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
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