Benchmarking local healthcare-associated infections: Available benchmarks and interpretation challenges

Summary: Growing numbers of healthcare facilities are routinely collecting standardized data on healthcare-associated infection (HAI), which can be used not only to track internal performance but also to compare local data to national and international benchmarks. Benchmarking overall (crude) HAI su...

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Main Authors: Aiman El-Saed, Hanan H. Balkhy, David J. Weber
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2013-10-01
Series:Journal of Infection and Public Health
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1876034113000695