
%0 Journal Article
%A Russo, Phil 
%T “And coming up next….. Mandatory Public Reporting”
%J Healthcare Infection
%D 2007/09/01
%V 12
%N 3
%P 77-78
%K 
%R https://doi.org/10.1071/HI07077
%U https://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/HI07077 
%X Like a window to the future, we can observe the proceedings in the US regarding the issues of mandatory public reporting (MPR) of hospital acquired infections (HAIs). At the recent Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) meeting in Baltimore, Carlene Muto from the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center presented a paper outlining the differences in HAI rates using traditional Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) methods compared to HAI data identified only during hospital admission as requested by state agencies. 
