Improving the Understanding of Publicly Reported Healthcare-Associated Infection (HAI) Data
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Improving the Understanding of Publicly Reported Healthcare-Associated Infection (HAI) Data.
OBJECTIVE Hospital-acquired infection (HAI) data are reported to the public on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Hospital Compare website. We previously found that public understanding of these data is poor. Our objective was to develop an improved method for presenting HAI data that could be used on the CMS website. DESIGN Randomized controlled trial comparing understanding ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0899-823X,1559-6834
DOI: 10.1017/ice.2016.180