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Reducing VAP/HAP Risk Factors
Cost Justification
Comprehensive oral hygiene has been shown to address key risk factors for hospital-acquired pneumonias (HAPs), including ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP).¹ CDC Guidelines for Preventing Healthcare-Associated Pneumonia recommend that facilities "develop and implement a comprehensive oral-hygiene program . for patients in acute care settings or residents in long-term care facilities who are at risk for healthcare-associated pneumonia (II)."² Sage's Cost Justification tool is designed to help healthcare facilities compare their projected annual oral hygiene expense in product costs to the estimated treatment costs avoided due to a reduction of VAP. Simply enter the following information, and review the report to see how comprehensive oral hygiene can benefit your facility's bottom line.
View a sample report.

General Information
Enter your facility's name.
Enter your facility's estimated monthly ventilator days/aspiration risk days.

Compliance and Product Selection
Compliance Rate (targeted or actual)

Select a Q·Care^® product that your facility uses and enter the exact cost per kit in the first box. Then consult your facility's protocol for frequency of product use and enter it in the second box. Please refer to product package for instructions, warnings and indications.
	6802 @ $ per kit* q 6804 @ $ per kit* q 6808 @ $ per kit* q 6704 @ $ per kit* q 6404 @ $ per kit* q 6414 @ $ per kit* q 6412 @ $ per kit* q 6904 @ $ per kit* q 6402 @ $ per kit* q
	6000 @ $ per kit* q 6552 @ $ per kit* q 6550 @ $ per kit* q 6006 @ $ per kit* q
Treatment Cost
Estimated cost to treat one VAP.	$150K Kollef Study³ $57K Cocanour Study⁴ $40K Rello Study⁵
Estimated cost to treat one HAP.	$65K Kollef Study²



* Pricing is market estimate. 1. Schleder B, Stott K, Lloyd RC, J Advocate Healthcare. 2002;4(1):27-30. . 2. Tablan OC, et al., Guidelines for preventing healthcare-associated pneumonia, 2003, Recommendations of CDC and Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC). 3. Kollef MH, et al., Chest. 2005;128(6):3854-62. 4. Cocanour CS, et al., Surgical Infections. 2005;6(1):65-72. 5. Rello J, et al., Chest. 2002;122(6):2115-21.

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