Interhospital Differences in Nosocomial Infection RatesImportance of Case-Mix Adjustment
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- 25 November 2002
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in Archives of internal medicine (1960)
- Vol. 162 (21) , 2437-2442
- https://doi.org/10.1001/archinte.162.21.2437
Abstract
HEALTH CARE–associated infections constitute a major challenge of modern medicine and are considered one of the most accurate indicators of the quality of patient care. Interhospital benchmarking of nosocomial infection (NI) rates is being performed with the aim of improving the effectiveness of health care and promoting patient safety.1This publication has 22 references indexed in Scilit:
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