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Using Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services care compare data to create hospital-acquired infection count thresholds: a SAS program and analysis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 December 2024

Benjamin D. Pollock Open the ORCID record for Benjamin D. Pollock [Opens in a new window]  and
Lorelle L. Ziegelbauer
Benjamin D. Pollock*
Affiliation:
Mayo Clinic Robert D. and Patricia E. Kern Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery, Jacksonville, FL, USA
Lorelle L. Ziegelbauer
Affiliation:
Mayo Clinic Robert D. and Patricia E. Kern Center for the Science of Health Care Delivery, Rochester, MN, USA
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Corresponding author: Benjamin D. Pollock; Email: [email protected]
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Abstract

Using the Statistical Analysis System (SAS) program shared here, all US hospitals can calculate hospital-specific hospital-acquired infection threshold counts for achieving a pre-specified benchmarked Standardized Infection Ratio performance percentile.

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 46 , Issue 2 , February 2025 , pp. 201 - 202
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© The Author(s), 2024. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America

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