Routine Surveillance Versus Independent Assessment by an Outcome Adjudication Committee in Assessing Patients for Sternal Surgical Site Infections After Cardiac Surgery

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology : the Official Journal of the Society of Hospital Epidemiologists of America
Dominik MertzMark Loeb

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.

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Mar 9, 2017·World Journal of Surgery·Vered RichterMayer Brezis

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