Is it financially beneficial for hospitals to prevent nosocomial infections?

• Principais autores: Shmuel Benenson (Autor), Matan J. Cohen (Autor), Carmela Schwartz (Autor), Michael Revva (Autor), Allon E. Moses (Autor), Phillip D. Levin (Autor)
• Formato: Livro
• Publicado em: BMC, 2020-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Assuntos: article
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Abstract Background Financial incentives represent a potential mechanism to encourage infection prevention by hospitals. In order to characterize the place of financial incentives, we investigated resource utilization and cost associated with hospital-acquired infections (HAI) and assessed the relat...