Other infection control interventions were not modified between the 2 study periods.
This multidimensional approach included a bundle of infection control interventions including hand hygiene, active screening, contact precaution and environmental cleaning.
Data concerning these mechanisms and patterns of antimicrobial resistance allows the implementation of changes in antimicrobial prescribing practices and infection control interventions.
We conducted a systematic review to examine the efficacy of infection control interventions for the control of ESBL-producing Enterobacteriaceae in hospitals in the non-outbreak setting.
Data concerning these mechanisms and patterns of antimicrobial resistance allow the implementation of changes in antimicrobial prescribing practices and infection control interventions.
The cost-effectiveness of the bundle compared to other infection control interventions is currently not known.
Infection control interventions are often cost-saving, but this term can be somewhat misleading, as most infection control interventions are unlikely to produce cash savings for the unit into which they are introduced and, in fact, the opposite may occur.
There is also lack of strong evidence on the efficacy of TB infection control interventions in high incidence settings [8].
Of note, a modeling approach always represents a huge simplification of real life and is here used to demonstrate differences across scenarios, rather than to precisely quantify cost-effectiveness of infection control interventions.
These observations highlight the crucial importance of prioritizing nurses in local infection control interventions, and confirm the findings of a recent study where data on contacts were collected through a questionnaire [32].
The cost-savings these infection control interventions achieve are better thought of as opportunity costs avoided, the main component of which is the value assigned to the bed-days released by infection control.
