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Performance of simplified surgical site infection (SSI) surveillance case definitions for resource limited settings: Comparison to SSI cases reported to the National Healthcare Safety Network, 2013–2017

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 March 2020

Matthew D. Westercamp Open the ORCID record for Matthew D. Westercamp [Opens in a new window] ,
Margaret A. Dudeck ,
Kathy Allen-Bridson ,
Rebecca Konnor ,
Jonathan R. Edwards ,
Benjamin J. Park  and
Rachel M. Smith
Matthew D. Westercamp*
Affiliation:
Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Diseases, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, Georgia
Margaret A. Dudeck
Affiliation:
Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Diseases, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, Georgia
Kathy Allen-Bridson
Affiliation:
Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Diseases, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, Georgia
Rebecca Konnor
Affiliation:
Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Diseases, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, Georgia
Jonathan R. Edwards
Affiliation:
Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Diseases, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, Georgia
Benjamin J. Park
Affiliation:
Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Diseases, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, Georgia
Rachel M. Smith
Affiliation:
Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Diseases, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, Georgia
*
Author for correspondence: Matthew D. Westercamp, Email: mwestercamp@cdc.gov
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Abstract

Surgical site infections (SSIs) are among the most common healthcare-associated infections in low- and middle-income countries. To encourage establishment of actionable and standardized SSI surveillance in these countries, we propose simplified surveillance case definitions. Here, we use NHSN reports to explore concordance of these simplified definitions to NHSN as ‘reference standard.’

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 41 , Issue 5 , May 2020 , pp. 611 - 613
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© 2020 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved

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