TY - BOOK AU - Shorr, Andrew F TI - Economic aspects of preventing health care-associated infections in the intensive care unit. [Review] SN - 0749-0704 PY - 2012/// KW - *Cross Infection/pc [Prevention & Control] KW - *Intensive Care Units/ec [Economics] KW - *Pneumonia, Ventilator-Associated/pc [Prevention & Control] KW - Cost-Benefit Analysis KW - Cross Infection/ec [Economics] KW - Humans KW - Pneumonia, Ventilator-Associated/ec [Economics] KW - United States KW - MedStar Washington Hospital Center KW - Medicine/Pulmonary-Critical Care KW - Journal Article KW - Review N1 - Available online from MWHC library: 1996 - present N2 - Infection prevention is critical to providing a high standard of care in the intensive care unit (ICU). Recent focus on eliminating health care-associated infections (HAIs) has met with variable results. Although evidence-based as far as their components, policy-driven bundled HAI prevention interventions have been evaluated in a limited and potentially biased fashion for their effectiveness, and analyses of their cost-effectiveness are lacking. We use ventilator-associated pneumonia as the case study to illustrate the pitfalls and challenges of arriving at the optimal HAI preventive strategies in the ICU UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ccc.2011.10.005 ER -