News: Hospital Compare update includes three new inpatient measures
CDI Strategies, December 23, 2010
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The Hospital Compare website, updated on Dec. 11, contains three new inpatient measures. These include Surgical Care Improvement Project (SCIP) Infection 9 (urinary catheter removed on postoperative day one or two) and two new structural measures: participation in a systematic clinical data registry for stroke care and participation in a systematic clinical data base registry for nursing sensitive care..
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