Comment from Sanguinet, Jennifer
Jennifer SanguinetSupportBusiness
Summary: Dr. Jason Kuhl, Chief Medical Officer at Providence Medford Medical Center, argues that the current NHSN Deep Incisional SSI surveillance definition is too broad and captures non-infectious complications. He requests revisions to the criteria to improve specificity by requiring objective markers of infection or excluding non-infectious clinical reasons for antibiotic use and surgical re-access.
Request for Reevaluation of NHSN Surveillance Definitions to update the deep incisional definition related to pain, antibiotic duration, and non-related re-accessing of original surgery site