Economic evaluation of healthcare-associated infection prevention and control in long-term care: a systematic review protocol

Systematic Reviews

Protocol

Katya Kruglova¹  Josiane Létourneau¹  Maripier Jubinville¹  Stephanie Robins¹  Drissa Sia¹  Emilie Bélanger¹  Catherine Séguin¹  Eric Nguemeleu Tchouaket¹  Sandra Boivin¹  Kelley Kilpatrick²  Idrissa Beogo³ 

[1] Department of Nursing, Université du Québec en Outaouais, St-Jérôme Campus 5, rue Saint-Joseph, Office J-2204, J7Z 0B7, Québec, Canada;Ingram School of Nursing, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, Canada;School of Nursing, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada;

关键词: Healthcare-associated infection;    Infection prevention and control;    Long-term care facilities;    Economic evaluation;    Discount;    Cost;    Effectiveness;    Benefit;    Systematic review;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s13643-022-02128-7

 received in 2021-08-22, accepted in 2022-11-08,  发布年份 2022

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundGiven the high risk of contracting a healthcare-associated infection in long-term care facilities, infection prevention and control are essential for the quality of care and safety of residents and staff. To develop more effective infection prevention and control interventions in long-term care facilities, it is important to assess the cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit of existing interventions. There are only a few reviews on this subject, but these are not recent and most do not perform an economic evaluation. Moreover, none uses a discounting approach which limits inter-study comparison. To address these gaps, we will conduct a systematic review of economic evaluations related to healthcare-associated infection prevention and control in long-term care facilities using a discounting approach.MethodsWe will query MEDLINE, Embase, Web of Science, Cochrane, CINAHL, EconLit, JSTOR, and Scopus, as well as the gray literature databases CORDIS and ProQuest. We will include quantitative studies that evaluate four clinical best practices associated with infection prevention and control (hand hygiene, hygiene and sanitation, screening, basic, and additional precautions) and use at least one of five economic analyses (cost-effectiveness, cost-benefit, cost-minimization, cost-utility, cost-consequences). Primary outcomes will include net cost savings, incremental cost-effectiveness ratio, incremental cost per quality-adjusted life year, and incremental cost per disability-adjusted life year. Two co-authors will independently screen and select articles, extract data, and assess the quality of selected articles using the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network criteria, the Economic Evaluation criteria, and the Cochrane criteria for economic evaluation. Extracted data will be synthesized, and values will be adjusted to 2022 Canadian dollars using the discount rates of 3%, 5%, and 8%.DiscussionInformation obtained through this systematic review may help researchers and policy makers make more efficient use of limited healthcare resources to ensure the safety and quality of long-term care.Systematic review registrationResearch registry ID: reviewregistry1210.

【 授权许可】

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