An implementation on the social cost of hospital acquired infections

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dc.contributor.authorKurutkan, Mehmet Nurullah
dc.contributor.authorKara, Oğuz
dc.contributor.authorEraslan, İsmail Hakki
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-30T22:39:12Z
dc.date.available2020-04-30T22:39:12Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.departmentDÜ, İşletme Fakültesi, İşletme Bölümüen_US
dc.descriptionWOS: 000355307300172en_US
dc.descriptionPubMed: 26064367en_US
dc.description.abstractHospital Acquired Infections (HAIs) are defined as infections developing in relation to health services at inpatient treatment facilities in general. Although health services improve, HAIs continue to be seen both in underdeveloped and developed countries. HAIs result in a range of negative externalities. Negative externalities include factors such as an increase in morbidity and mortality, extension of the hospitalization duration, impaired quality of life, loss of working power and performance. HAIs pose a big burden regarding population and community health care. This study aims to calculate the financial burden of HAIs by evaluating it within the scope of negative externality. The communal costs of HAIs patients were calculated by using a genuine approach with reference to samples obtained from the Duzce University Research and Application Hospital. This approach includes 4 stages and the results of each stage is sorted according to the data of 2013 as follows: (i) HAIs expenditure undertaken by the Social Security Institution is 5,832,167 TL, (ii) the monetary value of the work power loss of the HAIs patients who are at a working age is 126,154 TL, (iii) the relative cost of HAIs patients compared to a group of normal patients is 21,507 TL and (iv) HAIs patients' communal cost is 6,013,101 TL. Based on the received results, the annual communal cost of the estimated HAIs patients in Turkey is predicted to be 3,640,442,057 TL. In addition to these findings, HAIs patients experience 14 times longer in-patient stay at the hospitals as compared to normal patients, and their treatment expenditures are 23 times higher than the normal patients. In the conclusion part of the study, regarding the preventability (internalization) of HAIs, which was evaluated as part of negative externality, alternative applicable political suggestions are presented for the use of policymakers.en_US
dc.identifier.endpage4445en_US
dc.identifier.issn1940-5901
dc.identifier.issue3en_US
dc.identifier.scopusqualityN/Aen_US
dc.identifier.startpage4433en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12684/2642
dc.identifier.volume8en_US
dc.identifier.wosWOS:000355307300172en_US
dc.identifier.wosqualityQ4en_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Scienceen_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakPubMeden_US
dc.indekslendigikaynakScopusen_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherE-Century Publishing Corpen_US
dc.relation.ispartofInternational Journal Of Clinical And Experimental Medicineen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessen_US
dc.subjectHospital acquired infectionsen_US
dc.subjectfinancial burden of infectionen_US
dc.subjectnegative externalityen_US
dc.subjectsocial costen_US
dc.titleAn implementation on the social cost of hospital acquired infectionsen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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