title: A systems approach to the prevention of surgical infections.
abstract: Infection after surgery continues to be a major source of morbidity and expense despite extensive efforts with educational programs, guidelines, and hospital-based policies and procedures. The public and the government are demanding better performance and greater accountability. Our system operations within our institutions have failed. We need to adopt a culture dedicated to quality control through better information technology and data-driven initiatives to achieve improved clinical outcomes from infectious complications in surgery.
authors.affiliation: Michael Pine and Associates, Chicago, IL 60615, USA. dfry@consultmpa.com
authors.forename: Donald E
authors.initials: DE
authors.lastname: Fry
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D017053:Infection Control / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000379:methods*; D007256:Information Systems; D012307:Risk Factors; D013530:Surgical Wound Infection / Q000517:prevention & control*; D014481:United States