Improved hospital-level risk adjustment for surveillance of healthcare-associated bloodstream infections: a retrospective cohort study

BACKGROUND: To allow direct comparison of bloodstream infection (BSI) rates between hospitals for performance measurement, observed rates need to be risk adjusted according to the types of patients cared for by the hospital. However, attribute data on all individual patients are often unavailable an...

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Autores principales: Tong, ENC, Clements, ACA, Haynes, MA, Jones, MA, Morton, AP, Whitby, M
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2745417/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19719852
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-9-145

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2745417/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19719852
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-9-145

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