Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
ICPIC 2021 International Conference on Prevention and Infection Control, Geneve, İsviçre, 14 Eylül 2021, cilt.10, ss.264, (Özet Bildiri)
Introduction: The implementation of national infection prevention and control programme (IPC) including national surveillance system and multi-modal hand hygiene strategy is essential for decreasing healthcare associated infections (HAIs) and cost.
Objectives: A cost modeling study to show how cost-efective the reduction in hospital infection rates.
Methods: The structured IPC (infection control committees, training, surveillance, multimodal hand hygiene activities) has been put into practice since 2006 by MoH. All these activities since 2006 signifcantly reduced HAIs in Turkey and published in the literature (Gozel et al.). We conducted an analysis to reveal the gain in health expenditures from the reduction seen in Device associated (DA)-HAIs types examined in the article. The simulation study was carried out under the assumption that if the infection control program mentioned in the study had not been applied, the rates of hospital infections in 2008 would remain the same in the following years. As a frst step, we considered the patient day’s fgures between 2008 and 2017 years in the intensive care units in Turkey. Next, we made a simulation analyze in order to obtain the number of infections expected to occur for each year taking account the number of patient days for each year and the infection rates in 2008. In this way, we estimated the number of infections that would have occurred if the infection control program was not implemented. Cost data was obtained from cost studies conducted by Ağırbaş et al. regarding Device associated (DA)-HAIs for hospitals in Turkey in 2011. The costs obtained in the relevant study were updated for each year by considering the infation rates published by Turkish Statistical Institute for the following years and used in the calculations. Results: It has been found that, due to interventions for the prevention of hospital infections, especially in intensive care units in Turkey, between 2009–2017 it is estimated that a total of 3,107,192,116 TRL cost savings were obtained. This corresponds to approximately 1,159,174,148 USD.
Conclusion: Interventions implemented to reduce hospital infections have signifcantly reduced the costs of hospital infections and have had a decreasing efect on health expenditures in Turkey.
Disclosure of Interest: None declared.