title: Wound infection surveillance.
abstract: Wound infection surveillance is the information-gathering arm of a wound infection control program. Wound infection control concerns prevention--not therapy--of an infrequent but expensive kind of surgical morbidity. Topics discussed in this article include the effectiveness of wound infection surveillance; turf issues; phenomenology; and the gathering, reporting, manipulating, and use of wound infection data.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota School of Medicine, Minneapolis.
authors.forename: J T
authors.initials: JT
authors.lastname: Lee
mesh_terms: D003625:Data Collection; D006801:Humans; D012306:Risk; D014946:Wound Infection / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control*