Will a policy of refusing reimbursement for health care-associated infections be a sufficient incentive to drive improvements?--reply

Affiliations

¹ Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts2Sheba Medical Center, Ramat-Gan, Israel.
² Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts3Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.

Comment

Eyal Zimlichman et al. JAMA Intern Med. 2014 May.

. 2014 May;174(5):823-4.

doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2014.36.

¹ Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts2Sheba Medical Center, Ramat-Gan, Israel.
² Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts3Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.

No abstract available

Comment on

Health care-associated infections: a meta-analysis of costs and financial impact on the US health care system.
Zimlichman E, Henderson D, Tamir O, Franz C, Song P, Yamin CK, Keohane C, Denham CR, Bates DW. Zimlichman E, et al. JAMA Intern Med. 2013 Dec 9-23;173(22):2039-46. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2013.9763. JAMA Intern Med. 2013. PMID: 23999949
Will a policy of refusing reimbursement for health care-associated infections be a sufficient incentive to drive improvements?
Krupka D, Sandberg W, Weeks W. Krupka D, et al. JAMA Intern Med. 2014 May;174(5):823. doi: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2014.39. JAMA Intern Med. 2014. PMID: 24799009 No abstract available.