title: Literature search reveals focus of cost savings.
abstract: In the midst of this economic crisis, a role of the Infection Control Practitioner (ICP) is to creatively seek a means of defining cost effective practices. One approach is reflected through this 10-year retrospective analysis of all published infection control literature between 1974 and 1984 (up to February 1984).
mesh_terms: D003140:Communicable Disease Control / Q000191:economics*; D003363:Cost Control; D003428:Cross Infection / Q000191:economics*; D006801:Humans; D008523:MEDLARS; D014481:United States