ArticleInfection2026
Caseload, treatment diagnoses, and evaluation of clinical care concepts for infectious diseases at a municipal tertiary care hospital in Germany.
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Abstract
backgroundComprehensive data on municipal specialized infectious disease (ID) departments in Germany are scarce. PURPOSE: To analyze ID cases at Hospital St. Georg in Leipzig with regard to patient characteristics, spectrum of infections, care concepts, length of stay (LOS), clinical outcomes, and economic indicators.
methodsRetrospective descriptive analysis of all adult inpatient cases between January 2020 and December 2025.
resultsOf 17,878 adult patients (11.5% of all patients) discharged with a primary ID diagnosis, 28.7% (5,135/17,878) were treated as inpatients in the 40-bed ID department itself, while 3.8% (671/17,878) received organ-specific treatment in another specialty department with concurrent care provided by the antimicrobial stewardship (AMS) team, and 5.2% (935/17,878) received care via the ID consultation service (telephone consultations not included). A total of 4,492 individual ICD-10 codes were assigned, with 740 of them being classified as ID diagnoses. ID patients were older (median 70 vs. 66 years) and more frequently male (59% vs. 51%) than the reference population. The median LOS was longer for ID patients (7.0 vs. 4.1 days). The median case-mix index (CMI) was 1.344 (€ 5,356 per case) in the ID population vs. 1.113 (€ 4,352 per case) in the reference group.
conclusionsThis six-year analysis shows that ID patients represent a significant, complex, and older inpatient population with longer LOS, causing high clinical burden. Since coding data suggest that 62.3% of these patients did not receive specific treatment by ID specialists, there is potential for expanding structured ID consultation and AMS services, requiring additional resources.
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