TY - JOUR AU - Petherick, Emily S. AU - Dalton, Jane E. AU - Moore, Peter J. AU - Cullum, Nicky PY - 2006 DA - 2006/11/27 TI - Methods for identifying surgical wound infection after discharge from hospital: a systematic review JO - BMC Infectious Diseases SP - 170 VL - 6 IS - 1 AB - Wound infections are a common complication of surgery that add significantly to the morbidity of patients and costs of treatment. The global trend towards reducing length of hospital stay post-surgery and the increase in day case surgery means that surgical site infections (SSI) will increasingly occur after hospital discharge. Surveillance of SSIs is important because rates of SSI are viewed as a measure of hospital performance, however accurate detection of SSIs post-hospital discharge is not straightforward. SN - 1471-2334 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-6-170 DO - 10.1186/1471-2334-6-170 ID - Petherick2006 ER -