| Autor: |
Giraldi, G., Montesano, M., Sandorfi, F., Iachini, M., Orsi, G. B. |
| Rok vydání: |
2019 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
Annali di igiene : medicina preventiva e di comunita. 31(5) |
| ISSN: |
1120-9135 |
| Popis: |
Healthcare acquired infections (HAI) cause an increase of burden and in particular excess length of hospital stay (LOS) accounts for approximately up to 90% of total costs. Therefore accurate estimation of extra hospital stay due to healthcare acquired infections is very important.The authors carried out a review comparing the principal methods internationally used for estimating the excess LOS attributable to healthcare acquired infections.The methods described and analysed are: 1) Implicit physician assessment; 2) appropriateness evaluation protocol; 3) unmatched case-control; 4) matched case-control; 5) regression analysis; 6) multistate model. The various methodologies are described underlining advantages and limits which researchers need to know before starting any economic analysis.Overall, studies taking into account the time-dependent nature of HAI show to give more precise and reliable results. |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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