Applying Decision Science to the Prioritization of Healthcare-Associated Infection Initiatives

Medicine & Life Sciences

• Cross Infection 100%
• Patient Safety 73%
• Decision Support Techniques 58%
• Costs and Cost Analysis 46%
• Patient Harm 32%
• Baltimore 31%
• Catheter-Related Infections 31%
• Budgets 28%
• Surgical Wound Infection 28%
• Urban Hospitals 27%
• Mechanical Ventilators 26%
• Quality Improvement 24%
• Urinary Tract Infections 23%
• Patient Satisfaction 23%
• Teaching Hospitals 23%
• Uncertainty 22%
• Quality of Health Care 21%
• Decision Making 20%
• Interviews 16%
• Mortality 12%
• Infections 11%

Social Sciences

• Healthcare 77%
• costs 33%
• Quality of care 21%
• mortality 16%
• budget 15%
• candidacy 15%
• uncertainty 14%
• threat 13%
• decision making 12%
• event 11%
• methodology 10%
• Teaching 8%
• interview 8%