[Comment] Surgical site infection —the next frontier in global surgery

In this issue of The Lancet Infectious Diseases, the GlobalSurg Collaborative1 report the incidence of surgical site infection (SSI) from an international, multicentre, prospective cohort of consecutive patients undergoing elective or emergent gastrointestinal resection during the first 6 months of 2016. To document SSI in 343 centres across 66 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, Oceania, and South America is an impressive undertaking that substantially adds to our understanding of the global problem of post-operative infections and their associated morbidity and mortality.

Source: The Lancet Infectious Diseases - February 13, 2018 Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Robert G Sawyer, Heather L Evans Tags: Comment Source Type: research