Performance measures for guidelines on preventing opportunistic infections in patients infected with human immunodeficiency virus.
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.
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Department of Internal Medicine, Hackensack University Medical Center, Hackensack, NJ 07601, USA.
Asch
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Kitahata
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Freedberg
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Barr
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Melnick
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Bozzette
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Bozette
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D017088:AIDS-Related Opportunistic Infections / Q000517:prevention & control*; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006801:Humans