Surveillance of surgical site infection: more accurate definitions and more intensive recordings needed

Surgical site infection (SSI) continues to be a burden on systems that deliver healthcare and on patients who suffer morbidity, and mortality, associated with this complication of medical intervention. Surveillance of SSI is often an integral part of organizational infection prevention and control a...

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Main Authors: Leaper, David, Tanner, Judith, Kiernan, Martin
Format: Article
Published: Elsevier 2013
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/50781/