Surgical site infections

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1. Best practices for surgical wound management (BJN, 7 August 2025)

   • Surgery - General
   • Healthcare associated infection
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     • Healthcare associated infection
     • Post-op period
     • Infection control
     • Pre-op period
     • Discharge

   By Patient Safety Learning, 22 September, 2025

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   • 22 September, 2025

2. AHRQ's MRSA prevention toolkit: Targeting SSI

   • Healthcare associated infection
   • Surgery - General
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     • Surgery - General
     • Infection control
     • Virus

   By Patient Safety Learning, 8 May, 2025

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   • 8 May, 2025

3. Triclosan-containing sutures for the prevention of surgical site infection: A systematic review and meta-analysis (7 March 2025)

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   • Healthcare associated infection
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     • Healthcare associated infection
     • Systematic review

   By Patient-Safety-Learning, 14 March, 2025

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   • 14 March, 2025

4. Improving hand hygiene in the anesthesia workspace: The importance, opportunities, and obstacles (1 October 2024)

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     • Surgery - General
     • Healthcare associated infection
     • Infection control
     • Anaesthesia

   By Patient Safety Learning, 1 October, 2024

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   • 1 October, 2024

5. Why should the surgical community be interested in the global burden of healthcare associated infections and infection prevention and control? (25 September 2024)

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   • Healthcare associated infection
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     • Healthcare associated infection
     • Surgeon
     • Surgery - General
     • Antimicrobial resistance (AMR)

   By Patient Safety Learning, 26 September, 2024

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   • 26 September, 2024

6. The use of mobile thermal imaging and machine learning technology for the detection of early Surgical Site Infections (2 May 2023)

   • Healthcare associated infection
   • Screening
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     • Screening
     • Deterioration
     • AI
     • Technology

   By Patient-Safety-Learning, 17 April, 2024

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   • 17 April, 2024

7. An explainable long short-term memory network for surgical site infection identification (13 April 2024)

   • Healthcare associated infection
   • Surgery - General
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     • Surgery - General
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   By Patient-Safety-Learning, 15 April, 2024

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   • 15 April, 2024

8. Survey: European consensus to define the care bundle to reduce surgical site infections (SSIs) in practice

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   • Healthcare associated infection
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   By Patient Safety Learning, 12 February, 2024

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   • 12 February, 2024

9. Effectiveness of reducing bacterial air contamination when covering sterile goods in the operating room setting: a systematic review and meta-analysis (12 January 2024)

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   • Infection control
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     • Infection control
     • Medical device / equipment
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     • Systematic review
     • Meta analysis
     • Operating theatre / recovery

   By Patient Safety Learning, 8 February, 2024

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   • 8 February, 2024

10. The influence of operating room temperature and humidity on surgical site infection: A multisite ACS-NSQIP analysis (2 July 2023)

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    • Healthcare associated infection
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      • Healthcare associated infection
      • Risk management
      • Physical environment

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 24 November, 2023

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    • 24 November, 2023

11. Rituals and behaviours in the operating theatre – joint guidelines of The Healthcare Infection Society and The European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

    • Infection control
    • Safety behaviour
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      • Infection control
      • Safety behaviour
      • Recommendations

    By Patient_Safety_Learning, 31 July, 2023

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    • 31 July, 2023

12. WHO surgical site infection prevention guidelines: Summary of a systematic review on preoperative bathing

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    • Healthcare associated infection
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      • Healthcare associated infection
      • Patient
      • Advice
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    By Patient Safety Learning, 20 July, 2023

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    • 20 July, 2023

13. Evaluation of remote digital postoperative wound monitoring in routine surgical practice (5 May 2023)

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    • Healthcare associated infection
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      • Healthcare associated infection
      • Infection control
      • Post-op period
      • Monitoring
      • Technology
      • Digital health

    By Patient Safety Learning, 22 May, 2023

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    • 22 May, 2023

14. Establishing a Surgical Site Infections Prevention Day: A blog by Lilian Chiwera

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    • Standards
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      • Standards
      • Healthcare associated infection
      • Infection control
      • Global health
      • Collaboration

    By Lilian Chiwera, 9 February, 2023

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    • 9 February, 2023

15. Tackling the burden of surgical site infection (2 February 2023)

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      • Patient harmed
      • Infection control

    By Patient Safety Learning, 6 February, 2023

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    • 6 February, 2023

16. Image-based digital post-discharge surveillance in England: measuring patient enrolment, engagement, clinician response times, surgical site infection, and carbon footprint (12 January 2023)

    • Surgery - General
    • Healthcare associated infection
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      • Healthcare associated infection
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      • Technology
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      • Sustainability

    By Patient Safety Learning, 3 February, 2023

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    • 3 February, 2023

17. Surgical skin prep decision tool (Association for Perioperative Practice, NHS England and BD)

    • Surgery - General
    • Decision making
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      • Decision making
      • Surgeon
      • Anaesthetist

    By Patient Safety Learning, 17 November, 2022

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    • 17 November, 2022

18. Surgical Site Infections Quality Improvement Programme (Mölnlycke, June 2022)

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    • Surgeon
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    By Patient Safety Learning, 13 July, 2022

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    • 13 July, 2022

19. Have you ever contracted an infection during or after surgery? Share your experience

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    • Infection control
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      • Infection control
      • Healthcare associated infection
      • Patient harmed
      • Patient engagement
      • Survey

    By Patient Safety Learning, 27 June, 2022

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    • 27 June, 2022

20. Have you ever contracted an infection after surgery? Share your experience and help reduce risk for others.

    • Surgery - General
    • Infection control
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      • Infection control
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    By PatientSafetyLearning Team, 27 August, 2021

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    • 27 August, 2021

21. Patient narratives of surgical site infection: implications for practice

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      • Patient safety / risk management leads
      • Recommendations

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 14 July, 2021

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    • 14 July, 2021

22. Monitoring surgical wounds for infection: information for patients (last updated 19 August 2021)

    • Infection control
    • Surgery - General

    By PatientSafetyLearning Team, 12 July, 2021

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    • 12 July, 2021

23. Patients' experiences of acquiring a deep surgical site infection: an interview study

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    • Research
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      • Infection control
      • Research
      • Data
      • Patient safety / risk management leads

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 1 July, 2021

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    • 1 July, 2021

24. One is too Many: Viewing infection data from the patient's perspective

    • Infection control
    • Surgery - General
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      • Surgery - General
      • Patient safety / risk management leads

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 1 July, 2021

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    • 1 July, 2021

25. 6 recent stories, studies on surgical site infections

    • Infection control
    • Patient safety / risk management leads

    By Patient-Safety-Learning, 1 July, 2021

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    • 1 July, 2021