Incidence Measurement
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Infection Control in Home Care - Centers for Disease ...
wwwnc.cdc.govWithout valid data on the incidence of home-care acquired infection and analysis of risk factors, developing control efforts is difficult. Thus, initial resources must be directed toward developing measurement systems. Defini-tions and methods for the surveillance of nosocomial infection cannot be readily applied to home care. First ...
Hospital Toolkit for Adult Sepsis Surveillance
www.cdc.govlow measurement burden. However timeliness may be less of a priority because such definitions would be used ... 2009-2014, in contrast to administrative codes which showed increasing incidence and decreasing mortality, but are confounded by increasing sepsis awareness, coding bias, and financial incentives. ...
CLINICAL REVIEW Statin induced myopathy - BMJ
www.bmj.com1991 and 1997, the mean incidence of myopathy (defined in this trial as muscle weakness and raised concentrations of creatine kinase) in patients taking statinswas1.2per10000personyears(95%confidence interval 0.3 to 4.7).5 In another large study that examined rhabdomyolysis in a hospital population, the average incidence per 10 000 …
Learning Outcomes in an online vs traditional course
files.eric.ed.govthe measurement of student achievement are largely unclear. To the extent that examinations are given online with little or no supervision, the achievement of students in online classes may be greater than in traditional classes. In traditional sections examinations are supervised, thus minimizing cheating and collaboration in test taking.