Emerging Infectious Disease ISSN: 1080-6059

Can Managed Health Care Help Manage Health-Care-Associated Infections?

Richard Platt*

and Blake Caldwell†

Author affiliations: *Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; †Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

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The proportion of postoperative surgical site infections first identified before and after discharge from hospital in which surgery was performed. Light gray (Post/unknown) shows infected patients who did not return to the hospital at which surgery was performed. The units on the ordinate are percentages of all procedures (7).

Figure 3. . The proportion of postoperative surgical site infections first identified before and after discharge from hospital in which surgery was performed. Light gray (Post/unknown) shows infected patients who did not return to the hospital at which surgery was performed. The units on the ordinate are percentages of all procedures (7).

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