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INFECTION CONTROL AND HOSPITAL EPIDEMIOLOGY
Volume 27, Issue 5, Pages 526-528Publisher
UNIV CHICAGO PRESS
DOI: 10.1086/504444
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At a university hospital in Japan, the introduction of prospective surveillance and subsequent interventions was effective in reducing the rate of surgical site infection associated with elective colorectal surgery from 27.5% to 17.8% of surgeries. Japan should both recognize the importance of broader surveillance for surgical site infection and establish its own nationwide surveillance database.
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