906How Mandatory Public Reporting Undermines Infection Prevention: An Ethnographic Study

906How Mandatory Public Reporting Undermines Infection Prevention: An Ethnographic Study

Reduction in Clostridium difficile Infection Rates after Mandatory Hospital Public Reporting: Findings from a Longitudinal Cohort Study in Canada

BACKGROUND The role of public reporting in improving hospital quality of care is controversial. Reporting of hospital-acquired infection rates has been introduced in multiple health care systems, but its relationship to infection rates has been understudied. Our objective was to determine whether mandatory public reporting by hospitals is associated with a reduction in hospital rates of Clostri...

Mandatory reporting of professional incompetence.

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Ethnomathematics: An Ethnographic Study of Kermani Carpet Weavers

Ethnomathematics: An Ethnographic Study of Kermani Carpet Weavers   A. Moraadalizaadeh* A. Rafiepoor, Ph.D.**   The history and civilization of the Islamic Iran is witness to the scientific and cultural achievements of Iranians. Although at times these achievements have lost their galore in the eyes of the west, yet they can still be considered not only as a source of pride, but ...

Social Reporting Practices in Italian Public Sector: an Exploratory Study

This paper should be seen in the broad research field that analyses the impact of ICTs on public accountability reports with the objective of understanding whether the institutional websites of public administrations are qualifying and privileged carriers for social reporting and which models they use to draw up their documents. Our analysis refers to the public entities of the Italian regional...