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Abstract

Healthcare is becoming more complex and healthcare providers are often only involved in a small part of the process of patient care. Measuring the outcome of the process, in this case healthcarerelated infections, with feedback to the professionals involved is indispensable for assessment and improvement of quality of care. Prevalence surveys are used frequently to determine the quality of the process. This method has important limitations that can lead to a biased result. This problem is discussed on the basis of a case and a recent publication on healthcarerelated infections occurring after discharge.