A study explores the effects of subsidies on hospitals' efforts to prevent healthcare-associated infections using models of infection and hospital behavior, finding that for a given cost to policymakers, a dollar-for-dollar matching subsidy, preferentially awarded to hospitals with low intrinsic rates of infection transmission, yielded the greatest reduction in the proportion of infected patients.
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Article #18-12231: "Incentivizing hospital infection control," by Sarah E. Drohan, Simon A. Levin, Bryan T. Grenfell, and Ramanan Laxminarayan.
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences