Routine Surveillance Versus Independent Assessment by an Outcome Adjudication Committee in Assessing Patients for Sternal Surgical Site Infections After Cardiac Surgery. (19th January 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Mertz, Dominik; Whitlock, Richard; Kokoszka, Alicia Y.; Smith, Stephanie W.; Carignan, Alex; Rehan, Muhammad; Jaffer, Iqbal H.; Alsagheir, Ali; Loeb, Mark
• Is Part Of: Infection control and hospital epidemiology. Volume 37:Number 5(2016)
• Page Start: 600
• Page End: 602
• Publication Date: 2016-01-19
• Subjects: Nosocomial infections -- Epidemiology -- Periodicals; Health facilities -- Sanitation -- Periodicals; Hospital buildings -- Sanitation -- Periodicals; Cross Infection -- Periodicals; Epidemiology -- Periodicals; Hospitals -- Periodicals; Infection Control -- Periodicals; 614.44
• DOI: 10.1017/ice.2015.347
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0899-823X

Abstract

Abstract : Based on a cohort of 966 patients, routine surveillance data were not sufficiently accurate for use in clinical trials investigating surgical site infections. Surveillance data can only be used if adequate 90-day follow-up is provided and if cases identified by surveillance are independently reviewed by a blinded outcome adjudication committee. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2016;37:600–602