The authors are Elizabeth C. Wick, MD, and Caitlin Hicks, MD, both of the department of surgery at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and Charles L. Bosk, PhD, of the departments of sociology and anesthesiology and critical care at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. They compared the two methods for monitoring colon SSI rates, both of which many facilities use. However, the methods for calculating SSI rates, such as defining the denominator — in this case the total number of patients undergoing colon surgery — and following up on patients, differ. In addition, many hospitals assign different staff members for each monitoring system, which wastes resources. These differences generate different SSI rates and cause confusion about a particular hospital’s performance, the authors argued.
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“Confusion hinders progress. Few advances in the prevention of colon SSIs have been made. Continued and expeditious efforts toward a consensus and unification in monitoring, spearheaded by the leadership of the American College of Surgeons and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, will allow us to move beyond differences in the data that are artifacts of the measurement instrument and refocus our efforts on providing safer surgical care,” the authors wrote.
More Articles on SSIs:
Study: Automated SSI Identification Cuts Manual Chart Review Hours
Study: MRSA Colonized Patients Have 9-Fold Greater Risk of SSI
Study: 17% of Post-Surgery SSIs Reported at Nonoperative Hospitals
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Using both the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Healthcare Safety Network and American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program to monitor surgical site infections may hinder quality improvement, according to a commentary in JAMA Surgery.
The authors are Elizabeth C. Wick, MD, and Caitlin Hicks, MD, both of the department of surgery at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and Charles L. Bosk, PhD, of the departments of sociology and anesthesiology and critical care at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. They compared the two methods for monitoring colon SSI rates, both of which many facilities use. However, the methods for calculating SSI rates, such as defining the denominator — in this case the total number of patients undergoing colon surgery — and following up on patients, differ. In addition, many hospitals assign different staff members for each monitoring system, which wastes resources. These differences generate different SSI rates and cause confusion about a particular hospital’s performance, the authors argued.
“Confusion hinders progress. Few advances in the prevention of colon SSIs have been made. Continued and expeditious efforts toward a consensus and unification in monitoring, spearheaded by the leadership of the American College of Surgeons and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, will allow us to move beyond differences in the data that are artifacts of the measurement instrument and refocus our efforts on providing safer surgical care,” the authors wrote.
More Articles on SSIs:
Study: Automated SSI Identification Cuts Manual Chart Review Hours
Study: MRSA Colonized Patients Have 9-Fold Greater Risk of SSI
Study: 17% of Post-Surgery SSIs Reported at Nonoperative Hospitals
https://www.beckersasc.com/asc-quality-infection-control/study-17-of-post-surgery-ssis-reported-at-nonoperative-hospitals.html
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