Study: SSI Surveillance Should Include Nonoperative Hospitals

Post-discharge surgical site infection surveillance should include reports at hospitals where the surgery did not occur, according to a study in Clinical Infectious Diseases.

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Surgical site infection reports are based mainly on infections detected during surgical hospitalizations or readmissions to the same hospital, according to the study.

Read the full story on surgical site infection surveillance in Becker’s ASC Review.

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