Why the study?
Can colon SSI rates from the NHSN and the ACS NSQIP be used interchangeably to evaluate hospital performance?
Can colon SSI rates from the NHSN and the ACS NSQIP be used interchangeably to evaluate hospital performance?
Hospitals should not use ACS NSQIP colon SSI rates for NHSN reports as they are not interchangeable and could result in outlier performance status.
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NHSN and NSQIP colon SSI rates should not be assumed interchangeable for performance evaluation; leaves open standardization of surgical site infection metrics.
Ju et al. (2014) studied this question.
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