title: [Patient readmission for surgical site infection: integrative review].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Surgical site infections (SSI) represent an inherent risk after surgical procedures associated both to the surgical procedure and to the patient clinical conditions.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To analyze in an integrative review the studies related to patient readmission due to SSI.
  
  
  METHODS
  The review was carried out by LILACS, CINHAL, MEDLINE and COCHRANE databases and articles published from 1966 to 2010 were selected.
  
  
  RESULTS
  It was analyzed 13 studies classified as transversal (7), cohort (4) and longitudinal (2). Few studies analyzed only the readmissions related to the SSI. Time to define the readmission ranged from 28 to 90 days after surgery and studies related to orthopedic procedures were more frequent. The ISS readmission rates were lower than 5%. The main aetiological agents isolated from ISS were Staphylococcus aureus and coagulase-negative staphylococci.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Monitoring readmissions due to SSI could contribute to dimension the occurrence of ISS post-discharge, once about half of the SSI post-discharge was diagnosed at the readmission moment.
authors: Facultad de Ciencias Humanas, Sociales y Salud, Universidade FUMEC, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brasil. lilian.torres@superig.com.br
authors: Lilian
authors: L
authors: Machado
authors: Ruth N T
authors: RN
authors: Turrini
authors: Ana L
authors: AL
authors: Siqueira
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D010359:Patient Readmission / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D013530:Surgical Wound Infection / Q000453:epidemiology*; D013997:Time Factors