Postoperative Surgical Site Infections: Understanding the Discordance Between Surveillance Systems

Conclusion:
There is significant discordance in the determination of SSIs reported by the NHSN, NSQIP, and administrative data. The differences and limitations of each of these systems have to be recognized, especially when using these data for quality reports and pay for performance.

Source: Annals of Surgery - December 21, 2019 Category: Surgery Tags: ORIGINAL ARTICLES Source Type: research