Hospital Infection Rates: Another Score on the Healthcare Provider Report Card
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Brown, Vickie
- Affiliation: Gillings School of Global Public Health, Public Health Leadership Program
- Abstract
- Purpose: This paper examines the evolving policy of publicly reported hospital infection rates as an indicator of provider quality. Policy: The purpose of health care provider quality report cards is to provide consumers and large purchaser groups with information regarding the quality of patient care. . Policy makers believe that publicly reporting quality indicators will improve the delivery of care, reduce medical errors, decrease costs, improve patient outcomes, and allow consumers informed choice. Recently, hospital infection rates have been identified as an important indicator of quality that should be included in the healthcare provider quality report card. As of November 2005 twelve states have passed legislation related to the public reporting of hospital infection rates. This legislative action has taken place in the absence of an infection surveillance and reporting system that allows for accurate and reliable comparisons of individual hospitals within states and across regions. Current surveillance systems that are based upon administrative data sources or CDC-based surveillance methodology are inadequate due to a lack of sensitivity, specificity and the ability for risk adjustment of patient populations. It is not known what effect, if any, publicly reported hospital-acquired infections will have on patient outcomes.
- Date of publication
- May 2005
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- Track: HC&P
- Paper type: Research or research design
- Advisor
- Rutala, William
- Reviewer
- Williamson, William
- Degree
- Master of Public Health
- Degree granting institution
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Graduation year
- 2005
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- 564d1737-ca9b-4211-9c3e-c1926665c3df
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