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American Society of Anesthesiology scoring discrepancies affecting the National Nosocomial Infection Surveillance System: surgical-site-infection risk index rates.
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  9131367     Owner:  NLM     Status:  MEDLINE    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
The American Society of Anesthesiology (ASA) scoring was performed for the National Nosocomial Infection Surveillance (NNIS) System surgical-site-infection (SSI) risk indexing in 250 prosthetic-joint surgeries. There were ASA scoring discrepancies in 59% of 116 ASA-3 surgeries and 2 out of 10 ASA-3 SSI. The original ASA scoring led to an uncorrected SSI rate of 5.8 per 100 surgeries in the NNIS risk group 0; with corrected ASA scores, the rate was 4.5 per 100 surgeries.
Authors:
C Salemi; D Anderson; D Flores
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article    
Journal Detail:
Title:  Infection control and hospital epidemiology : the official journal of the Society of Hospital Epidemiologists of America     Volume:  18     ISSN:  0899-823X     ISO Abbreviation:  Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol     Publication Date:  1997 Apr 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  1997-07-24     Completed Date:  1997-07-24     Revised Date:  2004-11-17    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  8804099     Medline TA:  Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol     Country:  UNITED STATES    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  246-7     Citation Subset:  IM; N    
Affiliation:
Department of Internal Medicine, Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, Fontana, CA 92335, USA.
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MeSH Terms
Descriptor/Qualifier:
Anesthesia Department, Hospital / methods,  statistics & numerical data
Cross Infection / epidemiology*
Health Status Indicators
Humans
Infection Control / standards*
Medical Records / standards,  statistics & numerical data
Prosthesis-Related Infections / epidemiology
Reproducibility of Results
Risk Assessment
Societies, Medical / standards
Surgical Wound Infection / epidemiology*
United States / epidemiology

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