Rethinking standardised infection rates and risk adjustment in the COVID-19 era

Hojjat Salmasian; Jennifer Beloff; Andrew Resnick; Chanu Rhee; Meghan A Baker; Michael Klompas; Marc P Pimentel

doi:10.1136/bmjqs-2020-012074

Rethinking standardised infection rates and risk adjustment in the COVID-19 era

BMJ Qual Saf. 2021 Jul;30(7):588-590. doi: 10.1136/bmjqs-2020-012074. Epub 2021 Jan 8.

Authors

Hojjat Salmasian^{1

2}, Jennifer Beloff³, Andrew Resnick³, Chanu Rhee^{3

4

5}, Meghan A Baker^{3

4

5}, Michael Klompas^{3

4

5}, Marc P Pimentel^{3

6}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Quality and Safety, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA hsalmasian@BWH.HARVARD.EDU.
² Division of General Internal Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
³ Department of Quality and Safety, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
⁴ Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
⁵ Infectious Diseases Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
⁶ Division of Anesthesiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

PMID: 33419786
DOI: 10.1136/bmjqs-2020-012074

No abstract available

Keywords: health policy; healthcare quality improvement; hospital medicine; infection control; quality measurement.

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

COVID-19 / epidemiology*
COVID-19 / transmission*
Humans
Risk Adjustment*
SARS-CoV-2