Closing the Quality Gap: A Critical Analysis of Quality Improvement Strategies Volume 6—Prevention of Healthcare-Associated Infections
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ed separately. Thus, if an article reported a three arm trial, in which distinct interventions were delivered to participants in two of the arms and the third arm constituted a control group, then we considered such a study to contain two trials (the separate comparisons of the two intervention arms against the control group). Targeted Preventive Interventions We defined a “preventive intervention” as a specific infection control practice that has been demonstrated to reduce the incidence of a HAI. For each of our target HAIs, a wide variety of preventive interventions have been evaluated. We chose to focus on the implementation of preventive interventions that are recommended for universal use in target patient populations by
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Closing the Quality Gap: A Critical Analysis of Quality Improvement Strategies, Volume 7--Care Coordination
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