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Electronically Available Comorbidities Should Be Used in Surgical Site Infection Risk Adjustment

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0 Published in 2017 at "Clinical Infectious Diseases"

DOI: 10.1093/cid/cix431

Abstract: Background Healthcare-associated infections such as surgical site infections (SSIs) are used by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) as pay-for-performance metrics. Risk adjustment allows a fairer comparison of SSI rates across hospitals. Until… read more here.

Keywords: risk adjustment; risk; adjustment; infection ... See more keywords