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Raymond Chinn1, Jason M Lempp2, Susan S Huang3
11Infection Prevention and Clinical Epidemiology,Sharp Metropolitan Medical Campus,San Diego,California.
Abstract:
The government publishes 3 different public report surgical site infection (SSI) metrics, all called standardized infection ratios (SIRs), that impact perceived hospital quality. We conducted a non-random cross-sectional observational pilot study of 20 California hospitals that voluntarily submitted colon surgery and SSI data. Discordant SIR values, leading to contradictory conclusions, occurred in 35% of these hospitals. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2016;1-5.
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