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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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Infectious outcomes among four categories of breast procedure. Each bar represents all procedures with predicted probability of infection >0.03. Shown are 60-day outcomes extrapolated from the rates among procedures with adequate records. Prob, predicted probability of infection; SSI, surgical site infection; limited, reduction mammoplasty, mastopexy without implant, and mastectomy without axillary dissection or reconstruction; implant, breast procedures with an implant; axillary, breast proc

Figure 2. . Infectious outcomes among four categories of breast procedure. Each bar represents all procedures with predicted probability of infection >0.03. Shown are 60-day outcomes extrapolated from the rates among procedures with adequate records. p, predicted probability of infection; SSI, surgical site infection; limited, reduction mammoplasty, mastopexy without implant, and mastectomy without axillary dissection or reconstruction; implant, breast procedures with an implant; axillary, breast procedures with axillary dissection; reconstruction, breast procedures with reconstruction.

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