Retrospective or clue-based surveillance? what is the impact on the notification of surgical site infections in cardiac surgeries

Conclusion: the surveillance by medical r ecords, despite its acknowledged limitation, contributed in an important way to know, in fact, the rates of infection of the surgical site. It is suggested to the services of investigation of infections of the surgical site that the methods adopted for surveillance are rethought and, above all, that the rates obtained from different possible perspectives are validated.
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