Excess direct hospital cost of treating adult patients with ventilator associated respiratory infection (VARI) in Vietnam.
Quoc Dat VuVu Thi Lan HuongHugo C TurnerLouise ThwaitesH Rogier van DoornBehzad NadjmPublished in: PloS one (2018)
At the current annual government health expenditure of US$117 per capita, VARI represents a substantial cost to the health service in Vietnam. Enhanced infection prevention and control and antimicrobial stewardship programmes should be implemented to reduce this.