What counts? An ethnographic study of infection data reported to a patient safety program

Mary Dixon-Woods, Myles Leslie, Julian Bion, Carolyn Tarrant

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    Abstract

    Performance measures are increasingly widely used in health care and have an important role in quality. However, field studies of what organizations are doing when they collect and report performance measures are rare. An opportunity for such a study was presented by a patient safety program requiring intensive care units (ICUs) in England to submit monthly data on central venous catheter bloodstream infections (CVC-BSIs).
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)548-91
    Number of pages44
    JournalMilbank Quarterly
    Volume90
    Issue number3
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - Sept 2012

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    © 2012 Milbank Memorial Fund.

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