title: American Society of Anesthesiology scoring discrepancies affecting the National Nosocomial Infection Surveillance System: surgical-site-infection risk index rates.
abstract: The American Society of Anesthesiology (ASA) scoring was performed for the National Nosocomial Infection Surveillance (NNIS) System surgical-site-infection (SSI) risk indexing in 250 prosthetic-joint surgeries. There were ASA scoring discrepancies in 59% of 116 ASA-3 surgeries and 2 out of 10 ASA-3 SSI. The original ASA scoring led to an uncorrected SSI rate of 5.8 per 100 surgeries in the NNIS risk group 0; with corrected ASA scores, the rate was 4.5 per 100 surgeries.
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, Fontana, CA 92335, USA.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Salemi
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Anderson
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Flores
mesh_terms: D000761:Anesthesia Department, Hospital / Q000379:methods / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D003428:Cross Infection / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006305:Health Status Indicators; D006801:Humans; D017053:Infection Control / Q000592:standards*; D008499:Medical Records / Q000592:standards / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D016459:Prosthesis-Related Infections / Q000453:epidemiology; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012955:Societies, Medical / Q000592:standards; D013530:Surgical Wound Infection / Q000453:epidemiology*; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology