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Expanding Roles of Hospital Epidemiology: Quality Assurance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2016

Richard P. Wenzel
Richard P. Wenzel*
Affiliation:
Division of Clinical Epidemiology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, Iowa
*
C41 GH, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA 52242
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Extract

The role of hospital epidemiology is expanding. Today's hospital epidemiologists are being asked for advice by hospital administrators for matters outside of infection control. The latter relate to the optimal use of drugs, the level of health care provided by the employee health services and a number of issues related to the distribution and determinants of health care in the institution, all of which fall under the umbrella of quality assurance (QA). There is no doubt about the national preoccupation for monitoring health care and health care providers.

Type
Program Summaries
Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 10 , Issue 6 , June 1989 , pp. 255 - 256
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1989

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