title: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, Hackensack University Medical Center, Hackensack, NJ 07601, USA.
authors.forename: P A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Gross
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Asch
authors.forename: M M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Kitahata
authors.forename: K A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Freedberg
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Barr
authors.forename: D A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Melnick
authors.forename: S A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Bozzette
authors.forename: S A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Bozette
mesh_terms: D017088:AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections / Q000517:prevention & control*; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006801:Humans