title: Is There a Correlation Between Infection Control Performance and Other Hospital Quality Measures?
abstract: Quality measures are increasingly reported by hospitals to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), yet there may be tradeoffs in performance between infection control (IC) and other quality measures. Hospitals that performed best on IC measures did not perform well on most CMS non-IC quality measures. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2017;38:736-739.
authors.affiliation: 1Department of Epidemiology and Public Health,University of Maryland School of Medicine,Baltimore,Maryland.
authors.forename: Lyndsay M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: O'Hara
authors.affiliation: 1Department of Epidemiology and Public Health,University of Maryland School of Medicine,Baltimore,Maryland.
authors.forename: Daniel J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Morgan
authors.affiliation: 1Department of Epidemiology and Public Health,University of Maryland School of Medicine,Baltimore,Maryland.
authors.forename: Lisa
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Pineles
authors.affiliation: 2Department of Biostatistics,Indiana University R.M. Fairbanks School of Public Health,Indianapolis,Indiana.
authors.forename: Shanshan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: 3Boston Medical Center,Boston,Massachusetts.
authors.forename: Carol
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Sulis
authors.affiliation: 4University of Texas Health Science Center,San Antonio,Texas.
authors.forename: Jason
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bowling
authors.affiliation: 5Christiana Care Health System,Wilmington,Delaware.
authors.forename: Marci
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Drees
authors.affiliation: 7Division of Infectious Diseases,Department of Medicine,Emory University School of Medicine,Atlanta,Georgia.
authors.forename: Jesse T
authors.initials: JT
authors.lastname: Jacob
authors.affiliation: 8Duke Center for Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Prevention,Duke University,Durham,North Carolina.
authors.forename: Deverick J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Anderson
authors.affiliation: 9Department of Medicine,Washington University,St. Louis,Missouri.
authors.forename: David K
authors.initials: DK
authors.lastname: Warren
authors.affiliation: 1Department of Epidemiology and Public Health,University of Maryland School of Medicine,Baltimore,Maryland.
authors.forename: Anthony D
authors.initials: AD
authors.lastname: Harris
mesh_terms: D002353:Carrier State / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000382:microbiology; D055499:Catheter-Related Infections / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology; D062905:Central Venous Catheters / Q000009:adverse effects; D003142:Communication; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D017575:Gloves, Protective / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D019983:Guideline Adherence / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D063373:Hand Hygiene / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006761:Hospitals / Q000592:standards* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D017053:Infection Control / Q000379:methods / Q000592:standards* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D055624:Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus; D010359:Patient Readmission / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D019984:Quality Indicators, Health Care; D016032:Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic; D062885:Urinary Catheters / Q000009:adverse effects; D014552:Urinary Tract Infections / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology; D065507:Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci; D054556:Venous Thromboembolism / Q000517:prevention & control