A call for constructing a metric for monitoring CA-MRSA and other infectious diseases

The use of metrics is necessary for decision making when it comes to evaluating the need for interventions and improve healthcare delivery (Adams, Metrics: What Counts in Global Health, 2016). They inform policy makers on the scale of the problem in hand, and whether it’s time to intervene. It quant...

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Autor principal: Al Amiry, Alaa
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Commentary
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7079448/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32206311
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13690-020-0394-5
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description The use of metrics is necessary for decision making when it comes to evaluating the need for interventions and improve healthcare delivery (Adams, Metrics: What Counts in Global Health, 2016). They inform policy makers on the scale of the problem in hand, and whether it’s time to intervene. It quantifies the matter of interest and gives an indication whether the intervention taken was effective or not- as a means for monitoring and evaluation (Murray and Frenk, Lancet 371:1191-1199, 2008). This article advocates for a new metric by suggesting criteria to construct it, in order to provide a “value-based” measurement for CA-MRSA as a starting point for all infectious diseases. It also discusses challenges to this suggested approach.
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spelling pubmed-70794482020-03-23 A call for constructing a metric for monitoring CA-MRSA and other infectious diseases Al Amiry, Alaa Arch Public Health Commentary The use of metrics is necessary for decision making when it comes to evaluating the need for interventions and improve healthcare delivery (Adams, Metrics: What Counts in Global Health, 2016). They inform policy makers on the scale of the problem in hand, and whether it’s time to intervene. It quantifies the matter of interest and gives an indication whether the intervention taken was effective or not- as a means for monitoring and evaluation (Murray and Frenk, Lancet 371:1191-1199, 2008). This article advocates for a new metric by suggesting criteria to construct it, in order to provide a “value-based” measurement for CA-MRSA as a starting point for all infectious diseases. It also discusses challenges to this suggested approach. BioMed Central 2020-03-18 /pmc/articles/PMC7079448/ /pubmed/32206311 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13690-020-0394-5 Text en © The Author(s). 2020 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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