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. 2017 Jun;38(6):736-739.
doi: 10.1017/ice.2017.27. Epub 2017 Apr 5.

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

Lyndsay M O'Hara  1 , Daniel J Morgan  1 , Lisa Pineles  1 , Shanshan Li  2 , Carol Sulis  3 , Jason Bowling  4 , Marci Drees  5 , Jesse T Jacob  6 , Deverick J Anderson  7 , David K Warren  8 , Anthony D Harris  1
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Is There a Correlation Between Infection Control Performance and Other Hospital Quality Measures?

Lyndsay M O'Hara et al. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2017 Jun.

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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Hospital rankings by infection control measures and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) non–infection control quality measures.
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