tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8066238290370557389.post8579635564436592647..comments2024-03-20T04:44:15.540-05:00Comments on Controversies in Hospital Infection Prevention: New Pennsylvania report on HAIsDan Diekemahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10231929371552334184noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8066238290370557389.post-87530589076755370682010-01-13T15:17:51.483-06:002010-01-13T15:17:51.483-06:00I agree. Despite the fairness and validation issu...I agree. Despite the fairness and validation issues that Mike recently raised (http://haicontroversies.blogspot.com/2009/12/honesty-and-fairness-in-public.html), transparency and public reporting raises the profile of the issue and motivates change, engages senior hospital leadership, and should have the effect of lowering infection rates (provided validation, or the threat of it anyway, keeps hospitals honest and they don't spend all their time trying to game their rates).<br /><br />I haven't checked to see how much media attention, and what kind of media attention, follows each release of data in PA, our poster-child for public reporting.Dan Diekemahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10231929371552334184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8066238290370557389.post-60345764151931032012010-01-13T14:12:36.540-06:002010-01-13T14:12:36.540-06:00PA should be congratulated on doing the report. H...PA should be congratulated on doing the report. HAIs are preventable, but until they're openly discussed and considered as in need of attention/prevention as are the symptoms that bring people to the hospital, we'll be left with too many infections.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07996281416633264678noreply@blogger.com