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Article DOI: 10.1086/502585
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/502585
Guidance on Public Reporting of Healthcare‐Associated Infections: Recommendations of the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee • 
Linda McKibben , MD, Teresa C. Horan , MPH, Jerome I. Tokars , MD, MPH, Gabrielle Fowler , MPH, Denise M. Cardo , MD, Michele L. Pearson , MD and Patrick J. Brennan , MD
Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology , Vol. 26, No. 6 (June 2005), pp. 580-587
Article DOI: 10.1086/502585
Article Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/502585
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Guidance on Public Reporting of Healthcare‐Associated Infections: Recommendations of the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee

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Consumer demand for healthcare information, including data about the performance of healthcare providers, has increased steadily during the past decade. Many state and national initiatives are under way to mandate or induce healthcare organizations to publicly disclose information regarding institutional and physician performance. Mandatory public reporting of healthcare performance is intended to enable stakeholders, including consumers, to make more informed choices on healthcare issues. [more ...]

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  • Guidance on Public Reporting of Healthcare‐Associated Infections: Recommendations of the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee
  • Linda McKibben , MD, Teresa C. Horan , MPH, Jerome I. Tokars , MD, MPH, Gabrielle Fowler , MPH, Denise M. Cardo , MD, Michele L. Pearson , MD and Patrick J. Brennan , MD
  • Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology
  • Vol. 26, No. 6 (June 2005) (pp. 580-587)

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Linda McKibben , MD; Teresa C. Horan , MPH; Jerome I. Tokars , MD, MPH; Gabrielle Fowler , MPH; Denise M. Cardo , MD; Michele L. Pearson , MD; Patrick J. Brennan , MD; The

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Drs. McKibben and Cardo are from the Office of the Director, Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia. Drs. Horan, Tokars, and Fowler are from the Healthcare Outcomes Branch, Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. Pearson is from the Prevention and Evaluation Branch, Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia. Dr. Brennan is from the Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.*Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC): Chair—Patrick J. Brennan, MD, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Executive Secretary—Michele L. Pearson, MD, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, Georgia; Members—Vicki L. Brinsko, RN, BA, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee; Raymond Y. W. Chinn, MD, Sharp Memorial Hospital, San Diego, California; E. Patchen Dellinger, MD, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington; Nancy E. Foster, BA, American Hospital Association, Washington, DC; Steven M. Gordon, MD, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio; Lizzie J. Harrell, PhD, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina; Carol O’Boyle, PhD, RN, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Dennis M. Perrotta, PhD, CIC, Texas Department of Health, Austin, Texas; Harriett M. Pitt, MS, CIC, RN, Long Beach Memorial Medical Center, Long Beach, California; Robert J. Sherertz, MD, Wake Forest University School of Medicine, Wake Forest, North Carolina; Nalini Singh, MD, MPH, Children’s National Medical Center, Washington, DC; Kurt B. Stevenson, MD, MPH, Qualis Health, Boise, Idaho; and Philip W. Smith, MD, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska; and Liaison Representatives—William Baine, MD, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, Maryland; Joan Blanchard, RN, BSN, MSS, CNOR, CIC, Association of periOperative Registered Nurses, Denver, Colorado; Georgia Dash, RN, MS, CIC, Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc., Washington, DC; Sandra L. Fitzler, RN, American Healthcare Association, Washington, DC; David Henderson, MD, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland; Lorine Jay, RN, Health Services Resources Administration, Atlanta, Georgia; Stephen F. Jencks, MD, MPH, Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Baltimore, Maryland; Chiu S. Lin, PhD, Food and Drug Administration, Rockville, Maryland; Mark Russi, MD, MPH, American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Arlington Heights, Illinois; Rachel Stricof, MPH, Advisory Committee for the Elimination of Tuberculosis, CDC, Atlanta, Georgia; Michael Tapper, MD, Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, Inc., Alexandria, Virginia; and Robert Wise, MD, Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, Oakbrook, Illinois.Address reprint requests to Michele L. Pearson, MD, Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, Mailstop E‐68, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road, NE, Atlanta, GA 30333. HICPAC thanks the following subject‐matter experts for reviewing preliminary drafts of this guidance document: Victoria Fraser, MD, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO; Lisa McGiffert, Consumers Union; Richard Platt, MD, Harvard‐Pilgrim Health, Boston, MA; Robert A. Weinstein, MD, John J. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County, Chicago, IL; and Richard P. Wenzel, MD, Richmond, VA. HICPAC also thanks J. Shaw and Patricia Simone, MD, for exceptional editorial guidance during the development of this document. The opinions of all of the reviewers may not be reflected in all of the recommendations contained in this document.

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