Dictionary
The Dictionary provides concise definitions of health economics terms, arranged alphabetically for quick reference. Use it to understand unfamiliar terminology or confirm the meaning of a specific term.
H
- Hand Hygiene Economics
- The application of health economic evaluation to hand hygiene programmes reducing healthcare-associated infection spread, consistently found highly cost-effective.
- Healthcare-Associated Infection
- An infection a patient develops during care in a healthcare facility, not present or incubating at admission, largely preventable.
I
- Infection Measure
- A quality indicator tracking the frequency of specific healthcare-associated infections, such as central line-associated bloodstream infections, within a facility.