Reliability of Evaluating Hospital Quality by Colorectal Surgical Site Infection Type

OBJECTIVE:To determine whether risk-adjusted colorectal SSI rates are statistically reliable as hospital quality measures. BACKGROUND:Policymakers use surgical site infections (SSI) for public reporting of hospital quality and pay-for-performance because they are a relatively common and costly cause...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Annals of surgery 2013-12, Vol.258 (6), p.994-1000
Hauptverfasser:	Lawson, Elise H, Ko, Clifford Y, Adams, John L, Chow, Warren B, Hall, Bruce Lee
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Colon - surgery Female Hospitals - standards Humans Male Middle Aged Quality Assurance, Health Care Rectum - surgery Reproducibility of Results Surgical Wound Infection - epidemiology
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