title: The value of surgical risk models to the perioperative nurse.
abstract: The perioperative nurse has long been involved in wound classification, a variable historically used for analysis of surgical site infections. Now, with the development of more sophisticated surgical risk models, surveillance programs may calculate risk-specific surgical site infection rates. The understanding of these models is pertinent to the practice of the perioperative nurse.
authors.forename: P G
authors.initials: PG
authors.lastname: Grota
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Carter-Dunn
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008954:Models, Biological; D009871:Operating Room Nursing; D013530:Surgical Wound Infection / Q000145:classification / Q000517:prevention & control*; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000145:classification*