@article{dc0cb57017eb4fd3b55611316554aa64,
title = "Measuring the economic costs of antimicrobial resistance in hospital settings: Summary of the centers for disease control and prevention-emory workshop",
abstract = "Health systems administrators and clinicians need refined calculations of the attributable cost of infections due to drug-resistant microorganisms to develop and assess cost-effective prevention strategies that deal with these infections. To date, however, efforts to provide this information have yielded widely variable and often conflicting estimates. This lack of reproducibility is largely attributable to problems in study design and in the methods used to identify and measure costs. Addressing these methodological issues was the focus of a workshop that included participants from a broad range of backgrounds, including economics, epidemiology, health care management, health care outcomes research, and clinical care. This workshop summary presents the advantages and disadvantages of various research designs as well as particular methodological issues related to the measurement of the economic cost of resistance in health care settings. Suggestions are made for needed common definitions and approaches, study areas for future research are considered, and priority investigations are identified.",
author = "{Workshop Group} and David Howard and Ralph Cordell and McGowan, {John E.} and Packard, {Randall M.} and Scott, {R. Douglas} and Solomon, {Steven L.} and Cordell, {Ralph L.} and Solomon, {Steven L.} and Elbasha, {Elamin H.} and Gerberding, {Julie L.} and Meltzer, {Martin I.} and Scott, {R. Douglas} and Weber, {J. Todd} and Sameer Rajbhandary and Steinberg, {James P.} and Flanders, {W. Dana} and McGowan, {John E.} and Florence, {Curtis S.} and Howard, {David H.} and Packard, {Randall M.} and Rebecca Roberts and Weinstein, {Robert A.} and Goss, {Thomas F.} and Xiaoyan Song and Roghmann, {Mary Claire} and Bradham, {Douglas D.} and South, {Brett R.} and Bellm, {Lisa A.} and Mulligan, {Maury L.E.} and Porter, {Stephen B.} and Steven Teutsch and Mark Callahan and Ramanan Laxminarayan and Sanjay Saint and Robert Rosenman and Fraser, {Victoria J.}",
note = "Funding Information: Publication of the CID Special Section on Healthcare Epidemiology is made possible by an educational grant from Pfizer, Inc. Funding Information: Financial support: This workshop was sponsored in part by an unrestricted grant to the Center for the Study of Health, Culture and Society of Emory University from IntraBiotics Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Funding Information: Addressing these methodological issues was the focus of a 2-day workshop organized by the Center for the Study of Health, Culture, and Society at Emory University (Atlanta) in collaboration with the Division of Health Quality Promotion of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC; Atlanta) and the Rollins School of Public Health (Atlanta). The workshop, Measuring the Economic Costs of Antimicrobial Resistance in Health Care Settings, was held on 29 and 30 November 2000 at the Emory Conference Center and was funded by an unrestricted educational grant to the Center for the Study of Health, Culture, and Society from Intrabiotics Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Because of the interdisciplinary nature of the problem, this workshop included participants from a broad range of backgrounds, including economics, epidemiology, health care management, health care outcomes research, and clinical care.",
year = "2001",
month = nov,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1086/323758",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "33",
pages = "1573--1578",
journal = "Clinical Infectious Diseases",
issn = "1058-4838",
publisher = "Oxford University Press",
number = "9",
}