Cover: Performance Measures for Guidelines on Preventing Opportunistic Infections in Patients Infected with Human Immunodeficiency Virus

Performance Measures for Guidelines on Preventing Opportunistic Infections in Patients Infected with Human Immunodeficiency Virus

Published in: Clinical Infectious Diseases, v. 30, suppl. 1, Apr. 1, 2000, p. S85-S93

Posted on RAND.org on January 01, 2000

by Peter A. Gross, Steven M. Asch, Mari M. Kitahata, Kenneth A. Freedberg, David Barr, David A. Melnick, Samuel A. Bozzette

This article serves as a complement to the 1999 US Public Health Service/Infectious Diseases Society of America guidelines on the prevention of opportunistic infections in persons infected with HIV, published in this issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases. A number of performance measures to assess compliance with the guidelines and to aid in their implementation are proposed.

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