Benchmarking French regions according to their prevalence of healthcare-associated infections
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Benchmarking French regions according to their prevalence of healthcare-associated infections.
OBJECTIVE To propose an original method of benchmarking regions based on their prevalence of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) and to identify regions with unusual results. DESIGN To study between-region variability with a three-level hierarchical logistic regression model and a Bayesian non-parametric method. SETTING French 2006 national HAIs point prevalence survey. PARTICIPANTS A...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal for Quality in Health Care
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1353-4505,1464-3677
DOI: 10.1093/intqhc/mzt050