Journal
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF INFECTION CONTROL
Volume 42, Issue 2, Pages 185-189Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ajic.2013.09.020
Keywords
Intervention; Infection prevention; Dashboard; Metrics; Accountability; Measures
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This practice forum report details a standardized improvement process that was created both to improve patient outcomes related to various hospital-acquired infections and to address leadership concerns related to incented quality metrics. A 3-year retrospective review identified common issues to guide future interventions and confirmed that this methodology reduced the rate of recurrent infections across the health care system. Process tool samples are provided. Copyright (C) 2014 by the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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