Economic aspects of preventing health care-associated infections in the intensive care unit. [Review]
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: 2012Local holdings: Available online from MWHC library: 1996 - presentISSN:- 0749-0704
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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.
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