title: Postoperative wound infection: Critique II.
abstract: The surveillance of wound and other hospital-acquired infections has become of particular interest to the Department of Health, since infection rates are potentially useful as a measurement of the quality of care and are an important aspect of surgical outcome1. Infection rates might be used to compare the performance of hospitals or individual surgeons.
authors.affiliation: Emeritus professor of medical microbiology, director emeritus, Hospital Infection Research Laboratory, City Hospital NHS Trust, Birmingham.
authors.forename: G Aj
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: A/Liffe