Increasing US Rates of Endocarditis With Staphylococcus aureus : 1999-2008

Estimates of the incidence and impact of bacterial infective endocarditis (IE) have been limited by the infrequency of the disease. Administrative data analyses can provide important information across a broad range of hospitals and regions. We used a recent, nationally representative sample to estimate the incidence of hospitalizations for bacterial IE in the United States.