Abstract
Updated indicators of safety and quality for the
2011?12 financial year were released earlier this
year by the National Health Performance
Authority (NHPA) on the MyHospitals website (http://
www.myhospitals.gov.au). These detail the reports
received by the NHPA on a single outcome measure,
Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia (SAB), and a process
measure, compliance with hand hygiene. The universal
reaction in the media was to rank hospitals, implying that
low hand hygiene and high bacteraemia incidence reflect
poor quality of care.1 Although we support the open
publication of this information, we caution against
overinterpretation of the results.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 735 - 736 |
Number of pages | 2 |
Journal | The Medical Journal of Australia |
Volume | 199 |
Issue number | 11 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2013 |