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How We Improved Our SSI Tracking

Lessons from a hospital's two-year surveillance study could simplify the job of monitoring and documenting your post-op infection rates.

Janice E. Rey, MT (ASCP), CIC

Besides the fact that most SSIs surface only after patients are long gone from your facility, surgical site infections in ambulatory surgery patients haven't been extensively studied. The reason is simple: Traditional surveillance methods don't let us comprehensively detect surgical site infections in ambulatory surgery. You can probably guess why.

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