Overcoming an SSI Outbreak

APIC, AORN; ASC Conditions; ASCs; CIC; Centers; Classifying SSIs Superficial; Compare; Conditions; Consult; Control; Coverage; Criteria; Culture; Disease Control; Examine; Incorporate; Infection; Medicare's; PACU; Prevention's; SSI; SSIs Superficial; Track; abscess; accreditors; action; activities; addition; address; administration; administrative; admissions; advice; affiliated; ahead; alert; ambulatory; analyzing; and/or; antibiotic; aseptically; assessment; assistance; attending; attention; back; bacteria; based; baseline; biological; break; business; care; cases; central; certified; challenge; change; cleaning; clinical; cloudy; commonalities; communicate; communications; comparison; complete; compliance; complications; condition; conduct; conducted; confidentially; contact; contract; control; corrective; criteria; culture; decrease; deep; defined; department; detecting; determine; develop; diagnosed; differed; discharge; discovered; disinfecting; documentation; drain; drainage; drains; early; easy; educated; effectiveness; efforts; employ; employees; enforcement; enlist; ensure; environmental; epidemic; epidemiological; equipment's; essential; establish; evaluating; evidence; examined; excess; exhibit; existing; expert; explanation; facility; factors; fax; faxable; fever; field; findings; flashed; fluid; follow-up; forestalled; form; forms; guidelines; hand; health; healthcare; healthcare-associated; heavily; hospital; hygiene; hygienic; identified; identify; immediately; importance; important; improperly; improve; improvement; incidence; incident; incisional; include; including; increase; infection; infections; information; initiate; instruments; interpretation; investigate; investigating; investigation; involve; involving; isolated; lab; led; level; list; literature; load; local; localized; locate; log; long; machinery; magnitude; make; mandate; measures; member; method; methodically; monitor; month; multi-drug-resistant; nearby; newly; notify; observe; obtained; offices; order; organ; outbreak; outcome; page; pain; part; patient; patients; perform; performed; perioperative; personnel; physician; plan; positive; possibly; post-discharge; post-op; potential; potentially; practice; practitioner; pre-existing; pre-op; prep; preparation; preparing; presents; prevention; preventionist; problem; procedures; processes; products; professional; proper; prove; provided; public; qualified; quality; quarterly; quick; raise; rate; ready; receive; recommendations; recommended; red; redness; reference; regimen; regional; reliable; rely; reminds; report; reported; reporting; reports; reprocessing; reprocessor; require; requires; resources; responding; responses; review; reviewing; revised; rise; risk; rounds; routinely; safeguards; safety; scenario; seek; serve; services; sharing; sheet; similar; site; skin; source; special; stab; staff; stage; state; step; sterile; sterilization; sterilized; strongly; superficial; supply; surgery; surgical; surveillance; symptoms; tabs; team; tentative; terms; test; track; trained; transmission; trend; type; understand; warning; worst-case; wound