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Economic aspects of preventing health care-associated infections in the intensive care unit. [Review] - 2012

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Infection prevention is critical to providing a high standard of care in the intensive care unit (ICU). Recent focus on eliminating health care-associated infections (HAIs) has met with variable results. Although evidence-based as far as their components, policy-driven bundled HAI prevention interventions have been evaluated in a limited and potentially biased fashion for their effectiveness, and analyses of their cost-effectiveness are lacking. We use ventilator-associated pneumonia as the case study to illustrate the pitfalls and challenges of arriving at the optimal HAI preventive strategies in the ICU.


English

ISSN: 0749-0704

Subjects--Topical Terms:
*Cross Infection/pc [Prevention & Control]
*Intensive Care Units/ec [Economics]
*Pneumonia, Ventilator-Associated/pc [Prevention & Control]
Cost-Benefit Analysis
Cross Infection/ec [Economics]
Humans
Pneumonia, Ventilator-Associated/ec [Economics]
United States

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
MedStar Washington Hospital Center

Index Terms--Occupation:
Medicine/Pulmonary-Critical Care

Index Terms--Function:
Journal Article
Review