The incidence of hospitalized cases of systemic mycotic infections

Abstract
Information was obtained concerning patients hospitalized in 1970 at institutions participating in the Commission on Professional and Hospital Activities and having a deep mycosis as a discharge diagnosis. Based on these data there were an estimated 7697 patients with systemic mycotic infection hospitalized in the United States in 1970, the cost of their hospitalization being estimated at 9·39 million dollars. Hospitalization rates conformed, in general, to the known geographic distribution of the infective agent. For patients with a primary diagnosis of a mycotic infection, case fatalities per 100 hospitalized patients ranged from 0·0 for actinomycosis to 18·0 for cryptococcosis. Despite limitations of data derived from this type of survey, the findings represent the most accurate and comprehensive study of patients hospitalized due to systemic mycoses. In den Spitälern und Instituten der U.S.A., die der “Commission on Professional and Hospital Activities” angeschlossen sind, wurde 1970 bei 7'697 hospitalisierten Patienten die Schlussdiagnose einer Systemmykose gestellt. Die Hospitalisationskosten dieser Patienten betrugen schätzungsweise 9, 39 Millionen U.S. Dollars. Der Anteil der einzelnn Systemmykosen entsprach der bekannten geographischen Verbreitung der betreffenden Erreger. Die Lethalität schwankte von 0% bei Actinomykose bis 18% bei Cryptococcose. Innerhalb der Grenzen, die Statistiken dieser Art gesetzt sing, handelt es sich um die bisher genauesten und umfassendsten Daten über hospitalisierte Patienten mit Systemmykosen.

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