Mortality Attribution Tool

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

This tool provides an estimate of the number of healthcare-associated infection-related (HAI) 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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Select your HAI of interest.

This field is autopopulated using rates derived from peer-reviewed literature. You can enter alternate rates if desired..

Provide the number of HAI events identified during the surveillance period of interest.

Provide the surveillance period during which the HAI events above were identified (e.g., 1 year, 3 quarters, 2 months).

Provide an estimated percent reduction for that HAI.

Provide your name to use in the full report.

Provide the name of your facility to use in the full report.

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Instructions:

  • Select your HAI of interest,
  • Provide the number of times that HAI was identified and during what time period those occurred (e.g., 1 year), and
  • Provide an estimated percent reduction for that HAI.

Over a 1 year period, 199 CLABSI events were identified at your facility. Based on an attributable mortality rate of %, an estimated 22 of those patients died because of their infection.

A 25% reduction in CLABSI events could prevent approximately 5 deaths.

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How can a CLABSI reduction be achieved?

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 how often the event of interest is occurring in your facility (e.g., how often a specific product is used). Combined with outputs from the Mortality Attribution Tool, this tool will emphasize the expected benefit of the intervention.

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Provide a name for the proposed intervention

Indicate how many times the intervention event occurs per patient/device/etc.

Provide the costs of the current practice (if any)

Provide the costs of the proposed intervention

Provide a one-time cost amount unrelated to the denominator, if applicable (e.g. one-time training cost, one-time purchase of a piece of equipment).

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Instructions:

To add ICC results to the MAT output, you will need to:

  • Provide a name for the proposed intervention,
  • Indicate how frequently the intervention event occurs (e.g. once per patient, multiple times per device-day),
    • If the intervention event occurs multiple times per patient/device/etc., provide an estimate of how often (e.g., 8 times per device-day),
  • Provide an applicable denominator (e.g., number of device-days) for the time period you indicated in the MAT,
  • Provide the costs of the applicable current practice (if any) and the proposed intervention event, and
  • Provide a one-time cost amount unrelated to the denominator, if applicable (e.g. one-time training cost, one-time purchase of a piece of equipment).

This intervention would cost approximately more than your current practice over a 1 year period.

If this intervention reduced events by %, it would potentially save 5 lives over a 1 year period at the estimated additional cost of per life.