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Oral decontamination is cost-saving in the prevention of ventilator-associated pneumonia in intensive care units.

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OBJECTIVE:Although the development of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is assumed to increase costs of intensive care unit stay, it is unknown whether prevention of VAP by means of oropharyngeal decontamination is cost-effective. Because of wide ranges of individual patient costs, crude cost comparisons did not show significant cost reductions. DESIGN:Based on actual cost data of 181 individual patients included in a former randomized clinical trial, cost-effectiveness of prevention of VAP was determined using a decision model and univariate sensitivity analyses, and bootstrapping was used to assess the impact of variability in the various outcomes. DATA SOURCE:Published data on prevention of VAP by oropharyngeal decontamination, which resulted in a relative risk for VAP of 0.45, with a baseline rate of VAP of 29% among control patients. The mean costs of the intervention were 351 dollars per patient (32 dollars per patient per day). All other costs were derived from the hospital administrative database for all individual patients. RESULTS OF BASE-CASE ANALYSIS:Prevention of VAP led to mean total costs of 16,119 dollars and 18,268 dollars for patients without preventive measures administered. Thus, costs were saved and instances of VAP were prevented. Similar results were observed in terms of overall survival. RESULTS OF SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS:Prevention of VAP remains cost-saving if the relative risk for VAP because of intervention is <0.923, the costs of the intervention are less than 2,500 dollars, and the prevalence of VAP without intervention is >4%. Bootstrapping confirmed that, with about 80% certainty, oropharyngeal decontamination results in prevention of VAP and simultaneously saves costs. In terms of a survival benefit, the results are less evident; the results indicate that with only about 60% certainty can we confirm that oropharyngeal decontamination would result in a survival benefit and simultaneously save costs. CONCLUSIONS:This study provides strong evidence that prevention of VAP by means of oropharyngeal decontamination is cost-effective.

journal_name

Crit Care Med

journal_title

Critical care medicine

authors

van Nieuwenhoven CA,Buskens E,Bergmans DC,van Tiel FH,Ramsay G,Bonten MJ

doi

10.1097/01.CCM.0000104111.61317.4B

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2004-01-01 00:00:00

pages

126-30

issue

eissn

0090-3493

issn

1530-0293

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Oral decontamination is cost-saving in the prevention of ventilator-associated pneumonia in intensive care units.