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

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Citation: Critical Care Clinics. 28(1):89-97, vi-vii, 2012 Jan.PMID: 22123101Institution: MedStar Washington Hospital CenterDepartment: Medicine/Pulmonary-Critical CareForm of publication: Journal ArticleMedline article type(s): Journal Article | ReviewSubject headings: *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 StatesYear: 2012 Local holdings: Available online from MWHC library: 1996 - presentISSN:

0749-0704

Name of journal: Critical care clinicsAbstract: 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.All authors: Shorr AF, Zilberberg MDFiscal year: FY2012Digital Object Identifier:

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ccc.2011.10.005

Date added to catalog: 2013-09-17

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Journal Article	MedStar Authors Catalog	Article	22123101	Available		22123101

Available online from MWHC library: 1996 - present

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.

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