Costs of outpatient and inpatient MRSA screening and treatment strategies for patients at elective hospital admission - a decision tree analysis

Table 1 Description and quantification of parameters

Parameter	Description	Value	References
p_R+	Probability of having risk factors for MRSA	72.5%	own elicitation
p_MRSA+	MRSA prevalence in high-risk patients	3.94%	[8]
C_ris	Costs of screening for risk factors	€0.48	own elicitation
C_sc	Costs for swabs, documentation and laboratory testing as part of the screening (swab test)	€7.09	own elicitation
C_{pre _ iso}	Opportunity costs for a locked bed during preemptive isolation per day	€328.36	own elicitation
T_{pre _ iso}	Time in which the patient is preemptively isolated (in days)	2 days	see assumption
C_{dec _ hos}	Costs for decolonization (hygienic management (workload + materials) and laboratory) in the hospital per case	€1726.66	[4]
C_{iso _ hos}	Opportunity costs for a locked bed during decolonization per day	€328.36	own elicitation
T_{iso _ hos}	Time in which the patient is isolated during decolonization (in days)	15.08 days	[8]
C_{dec _ out}	Costs of outpatient decolonization per case	€91.77	[10]

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