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Rethinking standardised infection rates and risk adjustment in the COVID-19 era

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  • Hojjat Salmasian Department of Quality and Safety, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Division of General Internal Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Jennifer Beloff Department of Quality and Safety, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Andrew Resnick Department of Quality and Safety, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Chanu Rhee Department of Quality and Safety, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Infectious Diseases Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Meghan A Baker Department of Quality and Safety, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Infectious Diseases Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Michael Klompas Department of Quality and Safety, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Infectious Diseases Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  • Marc P Pimentel Department of Quality and Safety, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA Division of Anesthesiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA PubMed articlesGoogle scholar articles
  1. Correspondence to Dr Hojjat Salmasian, Department of Quality and Safety, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA; hsalmasian{at}BWH.HARVARD.EDU
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Salmasian H, Beloff J, Resnick A, et al
Rethinking standardised infection rates and risk adjustment in the COVID-19 era
BMJ Quality & Safety 2021;30:588-590.

Publication history

  • Received July 22, 2020
  • Revised November 30, 2020
  • Accepted December 30, 2020
  • First published January 8, 2021.
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January 09, 2022

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