Public reporting of infection rates as quality indicators

Allen Cheng; Pauline Bass; Carlos Scheinkestel; Tim Leong

doi:10.5694/mja11.10778

Public reporting of infection rates as quality indicators

Allen Cheng
, Pauline Bass
, Carlos Scheinkestel
, Tim Leong

Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine Alfred Hospital

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To the Editor: Echoing Scott and colleaguesa?? recent call for caution regarding the use of hospital standardised mortality ratios for benchmarking and public reporting,1 we have concerns about the use of infection rates as hospital quality indicators

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	326 - 327
Number of pages	2
Journal	Medical Journal of Australia
Volume	195
Issue number	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5694/mja11.10778
Publication status	Published - 2011

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Public reporting of infection rates as quality indicators

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