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Surveillance for Surgical Site Infections: The Uses of Antibiotic Exposure

Year: 1994

Type: article

Abstract: Conventional methods of surveillance for surgical site infections are resource intensive, thus creating an incentive to develop simpler alternatives. Antibiotic exposure may serve as a satisfactory marker for a physician's belief that infection is present and, therefore, may be a more efficient, and perhaps more accurate, measure than identification of an explicit diagnosis in the medical record. Surveillance strategies that use antibiotic exposure may provide resource-efficient adjuncts for surveillance of surgical site infections or be used in selected circumstances as substitutes for conventional surveillance methods.

Source: Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

DOI: 10.1086/646844

Authors: Deborah S. Yokoe, Richard Platt

Institutions: Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard University

Language: English

Topic: Surgical site infection prevention

Subfield: Surgery

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: bronze

OpenAlex ID: W2044909872