Positive Impact of Infection Prevention on the Management of Nosocomial Outbreaks at an Academic Hospital
Author(s) -
Jan-Willem H. Dik,
Bhanu Sinha,
Mariëtte Lokate,
Jerome R. Lo-Ten-Foe,
Ariane Dinkelacker,
Maarten J. Postma,
Alexander W. Friedrich
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
future microbiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.797
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1746-0921
pISSN - 1746-0913
DOI - 10.2217/fmb-2016-0030
Subject(s) - outbreak , medicine , emergency medicine , virology
Infection prevention (IP) measures are vital to prevent (nosocomial) outbreaks. Financial evaluations of these are scarce. An incremental cost analysis for an academic IP unit was performed.
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