Healthcare-Associated Infection Tools

How much will it cost to implement our infection prevention intervention?

Intervention Cost Calculator

This tool provides an estimate of the cost of implementing a specific intervention based on the cost of the current practice, the cost of the new practice, and the extent that the event of interest is occurring in your facility (e.g., how often a specific product is used). This output can be combined with outputs from the Mortality Attribution Tool and the Deferred Admissions and Reimbursement Tool on this site to emphasize the expected benefit of the intervention.

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How many potential admissions are we deferring because of HAIs?

Deferred Admissions and Reimbursement Tool

This tool estimates how many additional patients could potentially be admitted for various procedures and the potential reimbursement based on a reduction in the number of extra days that beds are filled by healthcare-associated infection (HAI) patients.

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How many potential patient deaths can we avoid by reducing HAIs?

Mortality Attribution Tool

This tool provides an estimate of the number of healthcare-associated infection (HAI) related deaths that occur over a given time period, an estimate of the number of lives that could be saved through a reduced HAI rate, and the option to add information about an intervention that could help achieve an applicable HAI reduction.

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What HAI SIR values would have allowed us to avoid a CMS HAC-related financial penalty?

Hospital-Acquired Conditions Expenditures Tool

This tool is for facilities whose hospital-acquired condition (HAC) rates resulted in a financial penalty in the previous year via the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) HAC Reduction Program. This report incorporates the facility’s preview or final HAC Reduction Program report data to provide an indication of whether user-proposed reductions in the facility’s standardized infection ratios (SIRs) would have been sufficient to avoid the financial penalty.

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