Clinical impact and cost-effectiveness of split-septum and single-use prefilled flushing device vs 3-way stopcock on central line–associated bloodstream infection rates in India: a randomized clinical trial conducted by the International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium (INICC)

Microbiological testing of devices used in maintaining peripheral venous catheters

“…Some investigators have speculated that the surface contamination of the 3WSCS occurs due to environmental exposure, manipulation by nursing staff, contact with the patient's microbiota and contact with the bed linen 8 , 12 . Among the resistant bacterial species isolated from the 3WSCS surfaces, the main ones were gram-negative bacteria with a resistance to carbapenems such as Klebsiella pneumoniae (9%), Pseudomonas aeruginosa (4.5%), and Acinetobacter baumannii (4.5%).…”

Economic methods used in health technology assessment

“…Nine studies were randomized controlled trials (Ashby et al, 2014;Downing et al, 2015;Harron et al, 2016;Lall et al, 2015;Murray et al, 2014;Rosenthal et al, 2015;Smulders et al, 2016;Walter et al, 2015), usually comparing clinical benefi ts and cost-effectiveness of the traditional device with a new developed one, one study was a prospective study (Dozet et al, 2016), using a cost-minimization analysis for societal impact reasons, and one was a survey (Heintz et al, 2016), conducted among 33 European countries, which are involved in the European Network for Health Technology Assessment. The aim of this survey was to provide a general framework for economic evaluation at a European level.…”

“…1 indicate, the most common economic method used in the economic evaluation of the medical device development is the cost-utility analysis (cf. Ashby et al, 2014;Downing et al, 2015;Heintz et al, 2016;Lall et al, 2015;Murray et al, 2014;Rosenthal et al, 2015;Smulders et al, 2016), followed by the cost-effectiveness analysis …”

“…Downing et al, 2015;Dozet et al, 2016;Heintz et al, 2016;Rosenthal et al, 2015), the cost-minimization analysis (cf. Dozet et al, 2016;Heintz et al, 2016), and the costconsequence analysis (cf.…”

Multicenter study in Colombia: Impact of a multidimensional International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium (INICC) approach on central line–associated bloodstream infection rates

“…[16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23] The ISOS allows the classification of prospective, active, cohort surveillance data into specific module protocols that apply the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC's) National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) definitions. 24 The bundles of infection prevention practices of the INICC Multidimensional Approach (IMA) follow the basic recommendations published in the guidelines of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America and Infectious Diseases Society of America in 2008 25 and the CDC in 2002.…”