Letter in Response to "Questionable validity of the catheter-associated urinary tract infection metric used for value-based purchasing"

Am J Infect Control. 2016 Mar 1;44(3):369-70. doi: 10.1016/j.ajic.2015.11.035.

Authors

Alison Laufer Halpin¹, Ronda Sinkowitz-Cochran², Katherine Allen-Bridson², Jonathan R Edwards², Daniel Pollock², L Clifford McDonald², Carolyn V Gould²

Affiliations

¹ Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA. Electronic address: [email protected].
² Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA.

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter
Comment

MeSH terms

Catheter-Related Infections / economics*
Catheter-Related Infections / epidemiology*
Health Services Research*
Humans
Infection Control / methods*
Urinary Tract Infections / economics*
Urinary Tract Infections / epidemiology*
Value-Based Purchasing*

Grants and funding

CC999999/Intramural CDC HHS/United States