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A Second Look at the Cost of Mandatory Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Hepatitis B Virus Testing for Healthcare Workers Performing Invasive Procedures

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2016

Gerard Russo  and
Sumner J. La Croix
Gerard Russo
Affiliation:
Department of Economics, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii
Sumner J. La Croix*
Affiliation:
Department of Economics, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii
*
Department of Economics, 2424 Maile Way, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii 96822
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Recently in this journal, Dr. Julie Gerberding analyzed the financial cost to a hospital of testing healthcare workers for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and hepatitis B virus (HBV) and restricting the employment of healthcare workers infected with these viruses.’ Dr. Gerberding calculated that a 350-bed university-affiliated public teaching hospital in San Francisco, California, would incur an annual cost of $433,875 to test healthcare workers performing invasive procedures and a cost of $402,125 to replace and retrain HIV-infected healthcare workers. On the basis of these estimates, she concluded that “the total cost of implementing [such] a testing program...for all healthcare workers is staggering” and that other methods of reducing the risk of HIV transmission from healthcare workers to patients should be considered more carefully.

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AIDS
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 13 , Issue 2 , February 1992 , pp. 107 - 110
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1992

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