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Development of a fully automated surgical site infection detection algorithm for use in cardiac and orthopedic surgery research.

Hiroyuki SuzukiGosia S CloreEli N PerencevichStacey M Hockett-SherlockMichihiko GotoRajeshwari NairWestyn Branch-EllimanKelly K RichardsonKalpana GuptaBrice F BeckBruce AlexanderErin C BalkenendeMarin L Schweizer
Published in: Infection control and hospital epidemiology (2021)
Considering the low prevalence rate of SSIs, our algorithms were successful in identifying a majority of patients with a true SSI while simultaneously reducing false-positive cases. As a next step, validation of these algorithms in different hospital systems with EMR will be needed.
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