Volume 13, Number 6—June 2007
Perspective
Economic Evaluation and Catheter-related Bloodstream Infections
Kate Halton*†
and Nicholas Graves*†
and Nicholas Graves*†Table 1
Inclusion and exclusion criteria for review
| Inclusion criteria |
|---|
| Had a full publication or manuscript for review |
| Conducted a full economic evaluation which valued both costs and benefits of the intervention |
| Based on a decision-analytic model |
| Evaluated at least 1 infection-control intervention aimed at reducing incidence of catheter-related bloodstream infection relative to a baseline scenario |
| Evaluated the intervention with respect to short-term (<21 d), nontunneled, central venous catheters |
| Based in an adult patient population |
| Written in English |
| Exclusion criteria |
| Cost-analysis studies only |
| Did not use a comparator |
| Based on a clinical trial (e.g., randomized controlled trial or pre-post intervention study) or a case study |
| Did not contain an original analysis (e.g., editorials, reviews) |
| Contained purely hypothetical data (e.g., methods articles) |
| Did not provide full details on methods (e.g., letters) |
| Based in a pediatric patient population |
| Evaluated interventions aimed at long-term or tunneled or peripherally placed central venous catheters |
| Evaluated therapeutic or diagnostic interventions, as opposed to preventive interventions |
