Hospital days, hospitalization costs, and inpatient mortality among patients with mucormycosis: a retrospective analysis of US hospital discharge data.

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Published in BMC Infect Dis on June 05, 2014

Authors

Marya D Zilberberg, Andrew F Shorr, Huan Huang, Paresh Chaudhari, Victoria Federico Paly, Joseph Menzin1

Author Affiliations

1: Boston Health Economics, Inc,, Waltham, MA, USA. jmenzin@bhei.com.

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