Reported surgical quality measures not associated with lower infection rates
June 22nd, 2010 | by |A study by investigators at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine published in this week's issue of JAMA found that public hospital comparison data reported by the US Department of Health and Human Services does not accurately correlate with a patient's risk for surgical postoperative infection.
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Reported surgical quality measures not associated with lower infection rates
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