The importance of good data, analysis and interpretation for showing the economics of reducing healthcare-associated infection
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2011
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To the Editor—In a recent review article in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, Umscheid et al1 summarized published data on incidence rates of catheter-associated bloodstream infection (CABSI), catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI), surgical site infection (SSI), and ventilator- associated pneumonia (VAP); estimated how many cases are preventable; and calculated the savings in hospital costs and lives that would result from preventing all preventable cases. Providing these estimates to policy makers, political leaders, and health officials helps to galvanize their support for infection prevention programs. Our concern is that important limitations of the published studies on which Umscheid and colleagues built their findings are incompletely addressed in this review. More attention needs to be drawn to the techniques applied to generate these estimates... |
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The University of Chicago Press |
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http://eprints.qut.edu.au/75186/1/75186.pdf http://www.medicine.wisc.edu/sites/default/files/Crnich-The_importance_of_good_data-_2011.pdf Graves, Nicholas, Barnett, Adrian, Halton, Kate, Crnich, Christopher, Cooper, Ben, Beyersmann, Jan, Wolkewitz, Martin, Samore, Matthew, & Harbarth, Stephan (2011) The importance of good data, analysis and interpretation for showing the economics of reducing healthcare-associated infection. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, 32(9), pp. 927-928. |
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Copyright 2011 The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America |
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Faculty of Health; Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation; School of Public Health & Social Work |
Palavras-Chave | #110309 Infectious Diseases #111706 Epidemiology #140208 Health Economics #healthcare associated infection #economics #epidemiology #costing #nosocomial infection |
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Journal Article |