Institutional quality and patient safety programs: An overview for the healthcare epidemiologist

Pranavi V Sreeramoju^#¹, Tara N Palmore^#², Grace M Lee^{3

4}, Michael B Edmond^{5

6}, Jan E Patterson⁷, Kent A Sepkowitz⁸, Donald A Goldmann^{9

10

11}, David K Henderson², Keith S Kaye¹²

Affiliations

¹ Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas.
² Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland.
³ Division of Infectious Diseases, Lucile Salter Packard Children's Hospital, Stanford University.
⁴ Stanford Children's Health, Stanford, California.
⁵ Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa.
⁶ University of Iowa Health Care, Iowa City, Iowa.
⁷ Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas.
⁸ Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York.
⁹ Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.
¹⁰ Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
¹¹ Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Boston, Massachusetts.
¹² Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

^# Contributed equally.

Pranavi V Sreeramoju et al. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2021 Jan.

. 2021 Jan;42(1):6-17.

doi: 10.1017/ice.2020.409. Epub 2020 Sep 4.

¹ Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas.
² Clinical Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland.
³ Division of Infectious Diseases, Lucile Salter Packard Children's Hospital, Stanford University.
⁴ Stanford Children's Health, Stanford, California.
⁵ Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa.
⁶ University of Iowa Health Care, Iowa City, Iowa.
⁷ Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, Texas.
⁸ Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York.
⁹ Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases and Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts.
¹⁰ Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
¹¹ Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Boston, Massachusetts.
¹² Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

^# Contributed equally.

No abstract available

Conflict of interest statement

Conflicts of interest. All authors report no conflicts of interest relevant to this article.

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