The New Zealand Surgical Site Infection Improvement (SSII) Programme: a national quality improvement programme reducing orthopaedic surgical site infections.

CONCLUSIONS: The introduction of a nationwide SSI reduction programme for hip and knee arthroplasties resulted in an increase in compliance across the country with best practice that was associated with a reduction in incidence of SSI since June 2015 from the baseline period of April 2013 to March 2014, sustained to June 2017. PMID: 30048432 [PubMed - in process]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30048432?dopt=Abstract

Source: New Zealand Medical Journal - July 28, 2018 Category: General Medicine Tags: N Z Med J Source Type: research