Use of Diagnosis Codes and/or Wound Culture Results for Surveillance of
Surgical Site Infection after Mastectomy and Breast Reconstruction
2010 ◽
Vol 31
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pp. 544-547
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We compared surveillance of surgical site infection (SSI) after major breast surgery by using a combination of International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification diagnosis codes and microbiology-based surveillance. The sensitivity of the coding algorithm for identification of SSI was 87.5%, and the sensitivity of wound culture for identification of SSI was 78.1%. Our results suggest that SSI surveillance can be reliably performed using claims data.
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