There is wide variation in wound classification between surgeons, operating room nurses and National Surgical Quality Improvement Program reviewers, according to a study in the Journal of the American ...
It is critical for surgery centers to properly classify surgical wounds as they are an important predictor for the possible risk of development of a postoperative surgical site infection, which is why ...
Diagnosis data, rather than documentation data, for surgical wound classifications provides a more accurate picture of surgical site infection rates, due to the discrepancies appearing in the wound ...