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Volume 6 Journal of Infectious Diseases and Therapy
ISSN: 2332-0877 Infection Congress 2018
March 01-02, 2018
March 01-02, 2018 Berlin, Germany
5th International Congress on
INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Knowing to design: Costs of and benefits from nosocomial infections for hospitals
Jean-Pierre Marissal
Institut Catholique de Lille, France
Background: The basic conditions for any process of financial incentives or penalties to favor the investment of hospitals in
the prevention of nosocomial infections are accuracy and fairness, because these two conditions have a strong influence on
the acceptability and the effectiveness of such a process. Accuracy and fairness mostly refer to the methods used to assess the
economic impact of nosocomial infections for hospitals, which concern both the measurement of the prolongation of stay and
the estimation of the costs or benefits induced by nosocomial infections.
Objective: We present a framework owing to assess major aspects of the costs and benefits related to the existence of episodes
of nosocomial infection for hospitals. This framework is used to compute the costs and benefits of nosocomial infections
by Clostridium difficile for two hospital structures, to help thinking systems of financial rewards and penalties to reduce
nosocomial infections.
Data &Methods: We use the properties of DRG-based payment systems to derive indicators of cost for hospitals, including an
estimation of the productivity losses due to a nosocomial infection. The empirical test is based on a multi-state modelling based
on Markov processes and bootstrapping aimed at estimating individual prolongation of stay at hospital due to Clostridium
difficile infections.
Results: We show that the definition of economic indicators of costs or benefits for hospitals is made possible in the context
of DRG-based payment systems. We point out potential inefficiencies of the current payment systems that a relevant reward/
payment system should overcome. Finally, we show how the statistical methods used in the measurement of the prolongation
of the hospital stay due to nosocomial infections pose potential problems in terms of fairness of rewards/penalties systems.
Conclusion: We analyse the existence of productivity gains in the case of deaths as a proof of the incompleteness of the DRG-
related payment systems, and discuss the methodological issues associated with the statistical methods used to control for
temporality bias.
Biography
Jean-Pierre Marissal completed his PhD in Microeconomics and works as a Health Economist at Catholic Institute of Lille, and the depending hospital structures.
He gives lectures on microeconomics at the same academic institution.
Jean-Pierre Marissal, J Infect Dis Ther 2018, Volume 6
DOI: 10.4172/2332-0877-C1-038