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Improved hospital-level risk adjustment for surveillance of healthcare-associated bloodstream infections: a retrospective cohort study

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Infectious Diseases, September 2009
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Title
Improved hospital-level risk adjustment for surveillance of healthcare-associated bloodstream infections: a retrospective cohort study
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BMC Infectious Diseases, September 2009
DOI 10.1186/1471-2334-9-145
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Authors

ENC Tong, ACA Clements, MA Haynes, MA Jones, AP Morton, M Whitby

Abstract

To allow direct comparison of bloodstream infection (BSI) rates between hospitals for performance measurement, observed rates need to be risk adjusted according to the types of patients cared for by the hospital. However, attribute data on all individual patients are often unavailable and hospital-level risk adjustment needs to be done using indirect indicator variables of patient case mix, such as hospital level. We aimed to identify medical services associated with high or low BSI rates, and to evaluate the services provided by the hospital as indicators that can be used for more objective hospital-level risk adjustment.

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The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 31 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.

Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Iran, Islamic Republic of 1 3%
United Kingdom 1 3%
Unknown 29 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 4 13%
Student > Bachelor 4 13%
Other 3 10%
Student > Master 3 10%
Lecturer > Senior Lecturer 2 6%
Other 7 23%
Unknown 8 26%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 10 32%
Business, Management and Accounting 4 13%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 6%
Mathematics 1 3%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 3%
Other 4 13%
Unknown 9 29%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

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#15,233,109
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#4,423
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#76,238
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Outputs of similar age from BMC Infectious Diseases
#15
of 18 outputs
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