TY - JOUR
T1 - Clinical implications of restrictions in criteria for defining surgical site infections after mastectomy
AU - Bediako-Bowan, Antoinette A.A.
AU - Warren, David
AU - Nickel, Katelin B.
AU - Fraser, Victoria J.
AU - Olsen, Margaret
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America.
Copyright:
Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - More than 50% of women with clinically apparent infection after mastectomy did not meet the 2020 National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) definition for surgical site infection (SSI). Implant loss was similar whether the 2020 NHSN SSI definition was met or not, suggesting equivalent adverse outcomes regardless of restriction to the surveillance definition.
AB - More than 50% of women with clinically apparent infection after mastectomy did not meet the 2020 National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) definition for surgical site infection (SSI). Implant loss was similar whether the 2020 NHSN SSI definition was met or not, suggesting equivalent adverse outcomes regardless of restriction to the surveillance definition.
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U2 - 10.1017/ice.2020.1288
DO - 10.1017/ice.2020.1288
M3 - Article
C2 - 33198850
AN - SCOPUS:85096330080
JO - Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology
JF - Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology
SN - 0899-823X
ER -