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s healthcare providers, we talk a lot about eliminating surgical
site infections, but unfortunately, we're not progressing the way
we'd like. We hear success stories, but we're also confronted
daily with the fact that hundreds of thousands of SSIs still hap-
pen every year, and that they exact a crushing toll in both dol-
lars and lives.
One reason is that in many facilities, this is the typical scenario: Day-to-day
operations hum along the way they normally do, until suddenly one week,
P R E V E N T I N G I N F E C T I O N S
To Eliminate SSIs,
We Went Back to Square One
The way we'd always done
things wasn't good enough.
James S. Harrop, MD | Philadelphia, Pa.