Is it financially beneficial for hospitals to prevent nosocomial infections?

• Main Authors: Shmuel Benenson (Author), Matan J. Cohen (Author), Carmela Schwartz (Author), Michael Revva (Author), Allon E. Moses (Author), Phillip D. Levin (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2020-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: 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...