How to Reduce Wound Infection Rates

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Tip 1 - Reduction in surgical wound infection rates associated with reporting data to surgeons

Published: 9 years, 7 month(s) ago | Submitted by Lee Riles | permalink

Several studies have shown that wound infection (surgical site infection [ ]) rates fall when surgeons are provided with data on their performance. Since 1987, the authors have been performing concurrent surveillance of surgical patients and confidentially ...

For further reading: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3250865/ ^[1]