It's safe to say that everyone from state and federal legislators to ICPs and organizations share a common goal: To reduce the number of hospital-acquired infections.
But there is less agreement about how that goal should be achieved. To put it in simple terms, some want to use a carrot-others a stick.
A number of states and organizations have taken or proposed measures that they believe will reduce hospital infections, such as mandatory infection-rate reporting. Others are taking these initiatives a step further.
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