Beyond 30 days: does limiting the duration of surgical site infection follow-up limit detection?
Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. julie_lankiewicz@hphc.org
Julie D
JD
Lankiewicz
Deborah S
DS
Yokoe
Margaret A
MA
Olsen
Fallon
F
Onufrak
Victoria J
VJ
Fraser
Kurt
K
Stevenson
Yosef
Y
Khan
David
D
Hooper
Richard
R
Platt
Susan S
SS
Huang
D015331:Cohort Studies; D018563:Disease Notification; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006761:Hospitals / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D010351:Patient Discharge; D011159:Population Surveillance / Q000379:methods*; D019984:Quality Indicators, Health Care / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D013530:Surgical Wound Infection / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology*; D013997:Time Factors; D014481:United States