Table 3.

Concepts, Actions and Knowledge Base for Infection Prevention, Quality, and Safety

Variable	Infection Prevention	Quality	Safety
Surveillance and analysis	X	X	X
Benchmarking	X	X	X
Microbiology and infectious diseases	X
Use of molecular epidemiology tools	X
Hand hygiene, environmental hygiene, vaccination programs	X
Outbreak investigation and control	X
Contact tracing and postexposure management	X
Emerging infections and liaison with public health	X
Noninfection safety issues such as pressure ulcers, diagnostic errors, etc.			X
Root-cause analyses and failure modes and effects analyses			X
Culture of safety measurement and interventions			X
Plan-do-study-act, rapid cycle improvement and lean methods		X
CMS core measure reporting		X
Value based payment programs		X
Quality incentive payment programs and interface with finance		X
Culture of high reliability		X	X
Interface with corporate suite and the health system board		X

Note. CMS, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.