[Economic evaluation of a program of coordination between levels for complex chronic patients' management].

Objective: The complex chronic patient program (CCP) of the Alt Penedès aims to improve the coordination of care. The objective was to evaluate the relationship between the costs associated with the program, and its results in the form of avoided admissions.

Design: Dost-effectiveness analysis from the perspective of the health System based on a before-after study.

An approach to the study of potentially preventable nosocomial infections.

Objective: To analyze a method that identifies potentially preventable nosocomial infections, as a tool to evaluate the performance of infection control programs through quantification of their potential for reducing nosocomial infections.

Methods: The database of the Study of the Prevalence of Nosocomial Infections in Spain (EPINE) was reanalyzed. The method was based on the use of false negatives of the classification table obtained from application of a fixed multiple logistic regression model, as an estimator of the number of potentially preventable nosocomial infections.

[Influenza vaccine and health-care workers: strategies to achieve compliance in a tertiary hospital].

Background: The effectiveness of immunization of health-care workers (HCWs) to reduce nosocomial transmission of influenza is well established. The objective of this study is to evaluate HCWs vaccination rates in a tertiary hospital.

Patients And Method: Data of influenza immunization rates among HCWs during two consecutive campaigns have been examined.