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Volume 11 - October 1990

Contents

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  • Clostridium difficile Associated Diarrhea

  • S. Brooks, R. Real, M. Kramer, M. Adachi
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    21 June 2016, p. 574
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Editorial

  • Zeroing in on the Appropriate Management of Occupational Exposures to HIV-1

  • David K. Henderson
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    21 June 2016, pp. 175-177
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Special Commentary

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  • Contributions of Epidemiology to Quality Assessment and Monitoring

  • Avedis Donabedian
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    21 June 2016, pp. 117-125

  • The contribution of epidemiology to quality assessment and monitoring: a clear enough subject. But as I approached it, it slipped into ambiguity and confusion. What was quality assessment? What was monitoring? For that matter, what was quality? And the meaning of epidemiology was the deepest mystery of all.

    I must begin by defining my terms. Quality shall be taken to mean making a judgment on the goodness of healthcare, based on one or more of the following: the expected or realized ability of the care to achieve the greatest improvement in health that the current science and technology of healthcare can achieve; acceptability to patients (including their families); and acceptability to the community (or the society at large). There are three ways in which we can find out if healthcare has been good in these respects. First is the examination of the process of care, which I take to mean the degree to which what is done for and by patients corresponds to what is known or believed to be most effective in improving health, and most acceptable to patients and to society. Second is the examination of the outcomes of care, meaning the degree to which the care provided is acceptable and has attained achievable improvements in health. Third is the examination of structural attributes, meaning the degree to which the physical and organizational settings in which care is given are conducive to the kind of care that can be expected to improve health and to be acceptable to patients and to the community. So much for quality assessment.

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  • Chickenpox in Apparently ‘Immune’ Hospital Workers

  • Inge Gurevich, Linda Jensen, Robert Kalter, Burke A. Cunha
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    21 June 2016, pp. 510-512
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  • Surveillance of the Surgical Wound

  • Ronald Lee Nichols
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    21 June 2016, pp. 513-514
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  • Improving Antibiotic Use Has Become Essential-Can Surgery Lead the Way?

  • John E. McGowan, Jr
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    21 June 2016, pp. 575-577
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  • JCAHO Inspections for Tertiary Care Facilities

  • Beth Raucher, Franklin W. McKinley, David Crimmins, Barbara Dillon, Susan Marchione
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    21 June 2016, pp. 226-227
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  • Medical Ostriches

  • Douglas R. LaBrecque
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    05 January 2022, pp. 126-128
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  • On Duplicate Publication of a Manuscript

  • W.H. Seto, S.G. Ong, T.Y. Ching
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    21 June 2016, pp. 336-340
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  • The Choice of Microcomputer Software for Infection Control

  • David R. Reagan
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    21 June 2016, pp. 178-179
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  • Decontamination Alternative

  • Janet k. Schultz
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    21 June 2016, p. 8
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