… reduction strategies, and risk adjustment is needed before SSI rates are publicly reported.
Improving the risk adjustment model facilitates meaningful comparison in the public reporting …

… -level data, such as the surgical site infection (SSI) measures). … will be more meaningful, as
the risk adjustment for HAIs will be … should increase our trust in publicly reported comparison …

… a risk adjustment model for surgical site infection after … P/E) ratio, and to compare the number
of outlier hospitals with the … into improving and incorporating risk adjustment methodologies …

… infections (SSI) are crucial methods before surgery. Hence, we aimed to compare the
performance of risk adjustment … [3], increased morbidity; measured as increased postoperative …

… and are associated with high surgical site infection (SSI) rates, compared to other procedure
… better risk adjustment models could be made using additional data relevant to the SSI risk, …

… Where available, adjusted effect measures were extracted and … Furthermore, increased
surgical duration was defined … time cutoff point to compare shorter versus longer surgeries, 15 …

… improved the performance of CMS risk adjustment. … -eligible surgical site infections using
current CMS risk adjustment … NYSDOH risk adjustment calculation was also flawed; compared …

… inpatient and outpatient outcomes, and is risk adjusted for comparisons.[11] While these …
of patients and improved risk adjustment in reporting SSI rates. Granular cost data are important …

… surgery, indications for incisional negative pressure wound therapy (iVAC) remain unclear.
We sought to compare rates of surgical site infection (… first to report increased rates of SSI with …

… Surgical Quality Improvement Program data as compared with national benchmarks. We
aimed to compare crude versus risk-adjusted post-… /urinary tract infection/surgical site infection, …