AUGUST 15, 2023

Updated Strategies Provide New Tactics for SSI Prevention


Originally published by our sister publication General Surgery News

It was updated for this posting.

By Jenna Bassett, PhD

A multidisciplinary group of experts released updated strategies for the prevention of surgical site infections (SSIs) in the acute care setting (Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2023;44[5]:695-720).

The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA), the Infectious Diseases Society of America, the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, the