Hospitals collaborate to decrease surgical site infections
Dellinger EP, Hausmann SM, Bratzler DW, et al. Hospitals collaborate to decrease surgical site infections. American Journal of Surgery. 2005;190(1):9-15.
This paper describes the results of the National Surgical Infection Prevention Collaborative designed to decrease surgical site infections through improving the use of proven surgical infection prevention practices: appropriate antimicrobial agent selection, timing, and duration; normothermia; oxygenation; euglycemia; and appropriate hair removal. Sponsored by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), this year-long collaborative improvement effort involved 44 hospitals and demonstrated a 27 percent decrease in infection rates.
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