Cost-effectiveness of interventions to improve hand hygiene in healthcare workers in middle-income hospital settings: a model-based analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Multi-modal interventions are effective in increasing hand hygiene (HH) compliance among healthcare workers, but it is not known whether such interventions are cost-effective outside high-income countries.

Aim

To evaluate the cost-effectiveness of multi-modal hospital interventions to improve HH compliance in a middle-income country.

Methods

Using a conservative approach, a model was developed to determine whether reductions in meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infections (MRSA-BSIs) alone would make HH interventions cost-effective in intensive care units (ICUs). Transmission dynamic and decision analytic models were combined to determine the expected impact of HH interventions on MRSA-BSI incidence and evaluate their cost-effectiveness

SUBMITTER: Luangasanatip N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6204657 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature