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

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 April 2017

Lyndsay M. O’Hara ,
Daniel J. Morgan ,
Lisa Pineles ,
Shanshan Li ,
Carol Sulis ,
Jason Bowling ,
Marci Drees ,
Jesse T. Jacob ,
Deverick J. Anderson  and
David K. Warren
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Lyndsay M. O’Hara
Affiliation:
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
Daniel J. Morgan
Affiliation:
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
Lisa Pineles
Affiliation:
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
Shanshan Li
Affiliation:
Department of Biostatistics, Indiana University R.M. Fairbanks School of Public Health, Indianapolis, Indiana
Carol Sulis
Affiliation:
Boston Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts
Jason Bowling
Affiliation:
University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas
Marci Drees
Affiliation:
Christiana Care Health System, Wilmington, Delaware Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Jesse T. Jacob
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia
Deverick J. Anderson
Affiliation:
Duke Center for Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Prevention, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
David K. Warren
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri.
Anthony D. Harris*
Affiliation:
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
*
Address correspondence to Dr. Anthony Harris, Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, 685 W. Baltimore Street, MSTF 330, Baltimore, MD 21201 (aharris@epi.umaryland.edu).
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Abstract

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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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 38 , Issue 6 , June 2017 , pp. 736 - 739
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© 2017 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved 

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