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Volume 08 Journal of Community Medicine & Health Education Public Health Summit 2018
May 24-25, 2018
May 24-25, 2018 Osaka, Japan
4th World Congress on
Public Health, Epidemiology & Nutrition
Incentives to reduce nosocomial infections: Amatter of economics and statistics
Jean-Pierre Marissal
Hospital Group of the Catholic Institute of Lille, France
Background: There is a growing political will to link hospital payments not only to the severity and complexity of the cases
treated, but also to the ability of a structure to meet some objectives regarding public health or cost cuts. One possible and
legitimate objective appears to be the performance about the prevention of nosocomial infections.
Objective: We analyze the ability of DRG-based payment systems to help defining financial incentives or penalties, about both
their economic and statistical feasibility.
Method: We assess the theoretical and empirical evidence for the possibility of payment/reward systems aimed at reducing the
incidence of nosocomial infections, based on an analysis of the costs involved by such infections for hospitals in both terms of
productivity and opportunity losses or gains. We use the case of Clostridium difficile infections as an illustration of the dilemma
involved in the task of incentivizing hospitals to prevent nosocomial infections.
Result: There is room for the definition of payment/reward systems based on the definition of criteria related to the productivity
gains/losses, based on DRG-payment systems and the estimation of opportunity costs involved. However, we show that the
main problem we are facing is related to the assessment of the impact of the nosocomial infection on the duration of hospital
stay at the individual level.
Conclusion: The methodological stalemate involved in the definition of payment/reward systems, as shown by the analysis
of a particular situation with general implications, calls for the definition of some academic consensus or common minimum
standard of estimation of such a crucial data that is the measurement of the individual extra lengths of hospital stay.
Biography
Jean-Pierre Marissal is working as a Health Economist at the Lille Catholic University, France and the depending hospital structures. He is also a Lecturer of
Microeconomics at the same academic institution.
Jean-Pierre Marissal, J Community Med Health Educ 2018, Volume 8
DOI: 10.4172/2161-0711-C2-035