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A recent paper in the open access journal, PLoS ONE, has evaluated the cost-effectiveness of the National Hand Hygiene Initiative implemented from 2009-2012 in Australia. The outcome used was healthcare associated Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia,and the eight existing state and territory hand hygiene programs were compared.
The study covered 1,294,656 admissions from the 50 largest Australian hospitals and the authors ultimately concluded that “The Australian National Hand Hygiene Initiative was cost-effective against an Australian threshold of $42,000 per life year gained.”
Graves N, Page K, Martin E, Brain D, Hall L, Campbell M, et al. Cost-Effectiveness of a National Initiative to Improve Hand Hygiene Compliance Using the Outcome of Healthcare Associated Staphylococcus aureus Bacteraemia. PLoS ONE. 2016;11(2):e0148190.
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