A systematic review of economic evaluation of healthcare associated infection prevention and control interventions in long term care facilities.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Healthcare-associated infections (HCAI) are common in long-term care facilities (LTCF) and cause significant burden. Infection prevention and control (IPC) measures include the clinical best practices (CBP) of hand hygiene, hygiene and sanitation, screening, and basic and additional precautions. Few studies demonstrate their cost-effectiveness in LTCF, and those that do, largely focus on one CBP. An overarching synthesis of IPC economic analyses in this context is warranted. The aim of this paper is to conduct a systematic review of economic evaluations of CBP applied in LTCF.

Methods

We twice queried CINAHL, Cochrane, EconLit, Embase, Medline, Web of Science and Scopus for studies published in the last three decades of economic evaluations of CBP in LTCF. We incl

SUBMITTER: Tchouaket EN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11605862 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature