Economics and preventing healthcare acquired infection

The evolution of organisms that cause healthcare acquired infections (HAI) puts extra stress on hospitals already struggling with rising costs and demands for greater productivity and cost containment. Infection control can save scarce resources, lives, and possibly a facility’s reputation, but statistics and epidemiology are not always sufficient to make the case for the added expense.Economics and Preventing Healthcare Acquired Infection presents a rigorous analytic framework for dealing with this increasingly serious problem. Engagingly written for the economics non-specialist, and brimming with tables, charts, and case examples, the book lays out the concepts of economic analysis in clear, real-world terms so that infection control professionals or infection preventionists will gain competence in developing analyses of their own, and be confident in the arguments they present to decision-makers. A rigorous but accessible introduction to economic theory--no prior knowledge of economics needed Economic jargon and math kept to a minimum Relevant and intuitive examples thatwill make sense to infection control practitioners Timely subject in light ofnew government regulation that affects hospital infection control programs INDICE: Acknowledgements.- Introduction.- 1. Economics.- 2. Health Economics.- 3. Economic appraisal: a general framework.- 4. Economic appraisal: the nuts and bolts.- 5. Changes arising from the adoption of infection control programs.- 6 – Measuring the cost of Healthcare Acquired Infections.- 7. Measuringthe cost of implementing infection control programs.- 8. Preventing HAI and the health benefits that result.- 9. Dissecting a published economic appraisal.- 10. Economic facts and the infection control environment.

• ISBN: 978-0-387-72649-6
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 165
• Fecha Publicación: 01/04/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés