Mandatory reporting and pay for performance: health care infections in the limelight

AORN Journal,  April, 2008  by Kathleen Meehan Arias

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KATHLEEN MEEHAN ARIAS, MS, CIC

Kathleen Meehan Arias, MS, CIC, is director of Arias Infection Control Consulting, LLC, Crownsville, MD.

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