Department of Pediatrics, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts.
Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2019 Nov;40(11):1269-1271. doi: 10.1017/ice.2019.240. Epub 2019 Sep 16.
Catheter-associated urinary tract infections in 592 hospitals immediately declined after federal value-based incentive program implementation, but this was fully attributable to a concurrent surveillance case definition revision. Post revision, more hospitals had favorable standardized infection ratios, likely leading to artificial inflation of their performance scores unrelated to changes in patient safety.
在联邦基于价值的激励计划实施后,592 家医院的导管相关尿路感染立即下降,但这完全归因于同时进行的监测病例定义修订。修订后,更多的医院具有有利的标准化感染比率,这可能导致其绩效评分的人为膨胀,与患者安全的变化无关。