Volume 7, Number 2—April 2001
THEME ISSUE
4th Decennial International Conference on Nosocomial and Healthcare-Associated Infections
State of the Art
Health-Care Quality Promotion through Infection Prevention: Beyond 2000
Table
Perspectives on health-care quality
Perspective | Infection control | Continuous quality improvement | Patient safety |
---|---|---|---|
Focus | Adverse health events | Indicators | Errors, near misses |
Determinants | Risk factors | Patient mix | Root cause Human factors |
Monitoring | Surveillance, response | Performance measurement, improvement | Reporting, learning |
Goal | Prevention | Performance improvement | System improvement |
Key professionals | Health-care epidemiologists, infection control professionals | Quality managers, accreditation officials | Systems engineers, health-care purchasers, consumers |