Economics and Preventing Healthcare Acquired Infection

• Main Authors: Graves, Nicholas. (Author), Halton, Kate. (Author), Jarvis, William. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2009.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Practice of medicine.; Emerging infectious diseases.; Epidemiology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Health Administration.; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention.; Public Health/Gesundheitswesen.; Infectious Diseases.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-72651-9

Economics and Preventing Healthcare Acquired Infection Nicholas Graves, Kate Halton, and William Jarvis 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 contain...

Table of Contents:

• 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. Measuring the 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.