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Special Report: Economic Incentives in Nosocomial Infection Control

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Bernard Friedman
Bernard Friedman*
Affiliation:
Center for Health Services and Policy Research, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois
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Center for Health Services and Policy Research, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60201
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To a new student in this field, with a background in the economics of health care financing and insurance, there appear to be many challenging issues regarding: a) the efficacy of particular infection control measures; b) the calculation of economic benefit from particular measures; c) the determinants of the actual levels of expenditure on infection control and the measures actually adopted; and d) the rationale and pitfalls of regulatory standards such as those recommended by the Centers for Disease Control or adopted by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals.

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Original Articles
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 4 , Issue 2 , April 1983 , pp. 103 - 106
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1983

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