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

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2017-06
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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.

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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? Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology, 38(6), 736–739. https://doi.org/10.1017/ice.2017.27
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