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Volume 10, Number 11—November 2004
Research

Enhanced Identification of Postoperative Infections among Outpatients

Andrew L. Miner*†‡, Kenneth E. Sands*‡§, Deborah S. Yokoe*†‡, John Freedman#, Kristin Thompson†, James M. Livingston‡, and Richard Platt*†‡Comments to Author 
Author affiliations: *Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; †Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; ‡Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; §Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; #Tufts Health Plan, Watertown, Massachusetts, USA

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Figure 1

Infectious outcomes by predicted probability of surgical site infections (SSI) calculated from SSI indicators for A) breast procedures and B) cesarean sections. Shown are all procedures with adequate documentation, which excludes 80%–90% of procedures with no SSI indicator and predicted probability of infection at baseline, 0.006. Predicted probability of infection is based on the categories of SSI indicators found in claims and pharmacy records. The infectious outcomes for breast procedures are

Figure 1. . Infectious outcomes by predicted probability of surgical site infections (SSI) calculated from SSI indicators for A) breast procedures and B) cesarean sections. Shown are all procedures with adequate documentation, which excludes 80%–90% of procedures with no SSI indicator and predicted probability of infection at baseline, 0.006. Predicted probability of infection is based on the categories of SSI indicators found in claims and pharmacy records. The infectious outcomes for breast procedures are based on postoperative days 0–60; cesarean section outcomes are from days 0–30.

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