Nicholas Graves

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors define the key economic concepts and specify an illustrative model that uses hypothetical data to identify how two related questions might be addressed: 1) how much should be invested for infection control, and 2) what are the most appropriate infection-control programs?

TL;DR: A prospective single-group study in ten call centres examined the association of presenteeism (presenteeism days, inefficiency days, Work Limitations Questionnaire, Stanford Presenteeism Scale) with Patient Health Questionnaire depression and anxiety syndromes as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: Accurate estimates of the costs of healthcare-acquired infection should be made and used in appropriately designed decision-analytic economic models that will make valid and believable predictions of the economic value of increased infection control.

TL;DR: The aim is to encourage researchers to collect and then disseminate information that accurately guides decisions about the economic value of expanding or changing current infection control activities.

TL;DR: It is shown that intensive care units in countries with limited resources have rates of device-associated health care-associated infection (HAI), including central line-related bloodstream infection (CLAB), ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP), and catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI), 3 to 5 times higher than rates reported from North American, Western European, and Australian ICUs.