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Use of Diagnosis Codes and/or Wound Culture Results for Surveillance of Surgical Site Infection after Mastectomy and Breast Reconstruction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Margaret A. Olsen  and
Victoria J. Fraser
Margaret A. Olsen*
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri
Victoria J. Fraser
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri
*
Division of Infectious Diseases, Washington University School of Medicine, Campus Box 8051, 660 South Euclid Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63110 (molsen@dom.wustl.edu)
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Abstract

We compared surveillance of surgical site infection (SSI) after major breast surgery by using a combination of International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification diagnosis codes and microbiology-based surveillance. The sensitivity of the coding algorithm for identification of SSI was 87.5%, and the sensitivity of wound culture for identification of SSI was 78.1%. Our results suggest that SSI surveillance can be reliably performed using claims data.

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Concise Communications
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 31 , Issue 5 , May 2010 , pp. 544 - 547
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2010

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