Is There a Correlation Between Infection Control Performance and Other Hospital Quality Measures?

• Type of Material: Article
• Authors: Lyndsay M. O'Hara, University of Maryland; Daniel J. Morgan, University of Maryland; Lisa Pineles, University of Maryland; Shanshan Li, Indiana University; Carol Sulis, Boston Medical Center; Jason Bowling, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio; Jesse Jacob, Emory University; Marci Drees, Christiana Care Health System; Deverick J. Anderson, Duke University; David K. Warren, Washington University; Anthony D. Harris, University of Maryland
• Language: English
• Date: 2017-06-01
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Version: Author Accepted Manuscript (After Peer Review)
• Copyright Statement: © 2017 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved.
• License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International
• Final Published Version (URL): http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ice.2017.27
• Title of Journal or Parent Work: Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology
• Volume: 38
• Issue: 6
• Start Page: 736
• End Page: 739
• Grant/Funding Information: A.D.H. received grant support from the National Institutes of Health (K24) and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (grant nos. 1R18HS024045–01 and HHSA290200600015).; Financial support: L.M.O. is the recipient of a Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship administered by the Government of Canada.
• Keywords: Science & Technology; Life Sciences & Biomedicine; Public, Environmental & Occupational Health; Infectious Diseases
• Research Categories: Health Sciences, Epidemiology

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.