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For many of us, the specter of report cards conjures up anxiety dreams. Nevertheless, public report cards have infiltrated many industries — airlines and banking, for instance — and various levels of government, and health care appears to be next. The belief that hospitals reporting lower infection rates are safer and that informed consumers will obtain safer care has driven many U.S. states to consider legislation requiring report cards on nosocomial infections.

Advocates of public reporting have been spurred on by the occurrence of nosocomial infections in 5 to 10 percent of hospitalized patients; increasing rates of antibiotic resistance; press . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Dr. Weinstein is the chair of infectious diseases at John H. Stroger (Cook County) Hospital and a professor of medicine at Rush University Medical Center, Chicago; Dr. Siegel is a professor of pediatrics at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and chair of the Infection Control Committee at Children's Medical Center Dallas; and Dr. Brennan is a professor of medicine and chief medical officer at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and Health System, Philadelphia.

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