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Is There a Correlation Between Infection Control Performance and Other Hospital Quality Measures?

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O'Hara, LM; Morgan, DJ; Pineles, L; Li, S; Sulis, C; Bowling, J; Drees, M; Jacob, JT; Anderson, DJ; Warren, DK; Harris, AD
Published in: Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol
June 2017

Quality measures are increasingly reported by hospitals to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), yet there may be tradeoffs in performance between infection control (IC) and other quality measures. Hospitals that performed best on IC measures did not perform well on most CMS non-IC quality measures. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2017;38:736-739.

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Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol

DOI

EISSN

1559-6834

Publication Date

June 2017

Volume

38

Issue

6

Start / End Page

736 / 739

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Venous Thromboembolism
  • Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci
  • Urinary Tract Infections
  • Urinary Catheters
  • Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic
  • Quality Indicators, Health Care
  • Patient Readmission
  • Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus
  • Infection Control
  • Humans
 

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O’Hara, L. M., Morgan, D. J., Pineles, L., Li, S., Sulis, C., Bowling, J., … Harris, A. D. (2017). Is There a Correlation Between Infection Control Performance and Other Hospital Quality Measures? Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol, 38(6), 736–739. https://doi.org/10.1017/ice.2017.27
O’Hara, Lyndsay M., Daniel J. Morgan, Lisa Pineles, Shanshan Li, Carol Sulis, Jason Bowling, Marci Drees, et al. “Is There a Correlation Between Infection Control Performance and Other Hospital Quality Measures?Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 38, no. 6 (June 2017): 736–39. https://doi.org/10.1017/ice.2017.27.
O’Hara LM, Morgan DJ, Pineles L, Li S, Sulis C, Bowling J, et al. Is There a Correlation Between Infection Control Performance and Other Hospital Quality Measures? Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2017 Jun;38(6):736–9.
O’Hara, Lyndsay M., et al. “Is There a Correlation Between Infection Control Performance and Other Hospital Quality Measures?Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol, vol. 38, no. 6, June 2017, pp. 736–39. Pubmed, doi:10.1017/ice.2017.27.
O’Hara LM, Morgan DJ, Pineles L, Li S, Sulis C, Bowling J, Drees M, Jacob JT, Anderson DJ, Warren DK, Harris AD. Is There a Correlation Between Infection Control Performance and Other Hospital Quality Measures? Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2017 Jun;38(6):736–739.
Journal cover image

Published In

Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol

DOI

EISSN

1559-6834

Publication Date

June 2017

Volume

38

Issue

6

Start / End Page

736 / 739

Location

United States

Related Subject Headings

  • Venous Thromboembolism
  • Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci
  • Urinary Tract Infections
  • Urinary Catheters
  • Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic
  • Quality Indicators, Health Care
  • Patient Readmission
  • Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus
  • Infection Control
  • Humans