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CDC Definitions of Nosocomial Surgical Site Infections, 1992: A Modification of CDC Definitions of Surgical Wound Infections

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2016

Teresa C. Horan ,
Robert P. Gaynes ,
William J. Martone ,
William R. Jarvis  and
T. Grace Emori
Teresa C. Horan*
Affiliation:
Hospital Infections Program, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control, Public Health Service, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Atlanta, Georgia
Robert P. Gaynes
Affiliation:
Hospital Infections Program, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control, Public Health Service, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Atlanta, Georgia
William J. Martone
Affiliation:
Hospital Infections Program, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control, Public Health Service, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Atlanta, Georgia
William R. Jarvis
Affiliation:
Hospital Infections Program, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control, Public Health Service, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Atlanta, Georgia
T. Grace Emori
Affiliation:
Hospital Infections Program, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control, Public Health Service, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Atlanta, Georgia
*
Hospital Infections Program, Mailstop A07, Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, GA 30333
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In 1988, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) published definitions of nosocomial infections However, because of journalistic style and space constraints, these definitions lacked some of the detail provided to National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance (NNIS) System hospitals in the NNIS Manual (unpublished). After the NNIS System hospitals had had considerable experience with the definitions and in response to a request for review by The Surgical Wound Infection Task Force, a group composed of members of The Society for Hospital Epidemiology of America, the Association for Practitioners in Infection Control, the Surgical Infection Society, and the CDC, we slightly modified the definition of surgical wound infection and changed the name to surgical site infection (SSI).

Type
Report From the CDC
Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 13 , Issue 10 , October 1992 , pp. 606 - 608
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1992 

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