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Surgical Site Infection Surveillance Following Ambulatory Surgery

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 December 2014

Chanu Rhee ,
Susan S. Huang ,
Sandra I. Berríos-Torres ,
Rebecca Kaganov ,
Christina Bruce ,
Julie Lankiewicz ,
Richard Platt  and
Deborah S. Yokoe
Chanu Rhee*
Affiliation:
Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, Massachusetts Division of Infectious Diseases, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
Susan S. Huang
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, University of California, Irvine, School of Medicine, Irvine
Sandra I. Berríos-Torres
Affiliation:
Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, CDC, Atlanta, Georgia.
Rebecca Kaganov
Affiliation:
Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, Massachusetts
Christina Bruce
Affiliation:
Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, Massachusetts
Julie Lankiewicz
Affiliation:
Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, Massachusetts
Richard Platt
Affiliation:
Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, Massachusetts
Deborah S. Yokoe
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
*
Address correspondence to Chanu Rhee, MD, Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, 133 Brookline Avenue, 6th Floor, Boston, MA 02215 ([email protected]).
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Abstract

We assessed 4045 ambulatory surgery patients for surgical site infection (SSI) using claims-based triggers for medical chart review. Of 98 patients flagged by codes suggestive of SSI, 35 had confirmed SSIs. SSI rates ranged from 0 to 3.2% for common procedures. Claims may be useful for SSI surveillance following ambulatory surgery.

Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2014;00(0):1–4

Type
Concise Communications
Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 36 , Issue 2 , February 2015 , pp. 225 - 228
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© 2014 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved 

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Footnotes

Presented in part: IDWeek; San Francisco, California; October 17–21, 2012 (abstract 1295).

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