Under the Joint Commission's National Patient Safety Goal 07.05.01 on preventing surgical site infections (SSIs), organizations are required to measure their SSI rates. They also need to provide process and outcome measures, such as SSI rates, to key stakeholders; for example, surgeons and senior administrators.
For surgeons and other medical professionals, what to wear to…
Infection preventionists (IPs) play a vital role in healthcare, especially…
Surgical site infection (SSI) surveillance has rapidly grown in the…