Performance Measures for Guidelines on Preventing Opportunistic Infections in Patients Infected with Human Immunodeficiency Virus

Abstract
This article serves as a complement to the 1999 US Public Health Service/Infectious Diseases Society of America guidelines on the prevention of opportunistic infections in persons infected with HIV, published in this issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases [1]. A number of performance measures to assess compliance with the guidelines and to aid in their implementation are proposed.