Year
|
Number of diagnoses
|
|---|
2013 | 7074 |
2014 | 8488 |
2015 | 11,697 |
2016 | 19,747 |
2017 | 28,907 |
- The number of diagnoses of infections or colonisations with glycopeptide-resistant E. faecium between 2013 and 2017 were analysed using publicly available data from the hospital payment system based on fee-for-case on diagnosis related groups. The dataset contains diagnosis data of ~ 1500 out of a total of 1924 existing (2017) German hospitals. The diagnoses code U80.30! according ICD-10-GM was used to identify cases of E. faecium with resistance to glycopeptide antibiotics
