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Improving Health-Care Quality Through Measurement

“Wherever we see systematic measurement of results in health-care–no matter what the country–we see those results improve.” Michael E. Porter, Harvard Business Review (October 2013) Extensive evidence exists demonstrating that health-care is plagued with overutilization of inappropriate services, underutilization of…

Prevention of Perioperative Surgical Site Infection

Introduction Surgical site infections (SSIs) are now the most common cause of hospital-acquired infections (HAIs), accounting for approximately 20% of all HAIs in hospitalized patients. Approximately 160,000–300,000 SSIs occur each year in the United States and 2%–5% occur in patients…