Objective: To determine hospital-related risk factors for surgical-site infection (SSI) following
hip arthroplasty. Design: Prospective, multicenter cohort study based on surveillance data …

Objective. To describe rates of surgical site infection (SSI) after hip replacement and to use
these data to provide a simple mechanism for identifying poorly performing hospitals that …

Objective. We estimated the impact of hip replacement-associated surgical site infection
(SSI) on morbidity and length of stay. Methods. This was a pairwise matched (1: 1) case …

Objective. To compare the surgical site infection (SSI) rate after primary total hip arthroplasty
with the SSI rate after revision total hip arthroplasty. Design. Retrospective cohort study …

Objective. To evaluate the time trend in the surgical site infection (SSI) rate in relation to the
duration of surveillance in The Netherlands. Setting. Forty-two hospitals that participated in …

In the Dutch surveillance for surgical site infections (SSIs), data from 70277 orthopaedic
procedures with 1895 SSIs were collected between 1996 and 2003. The aims of this study …

A prospective cohort study with a 1-year telephone follow-up was performed to estimate the
incidence of surgical-site infections (SSIs) in hip and knee prostheses. Twenty-five public …

BACKGROUND: Artificial joint replacement of hip (HPRO) and knee (KPRO) are 2 of about
20 categories of operative procedures of the surveillance of surgical site infection (SSI) as …

Background Most surgical site infections (SSIs) after hip arthroplasty are detected after a
patient is discharged from hospital, making postdischarge surveillance (PDS) an important …

Objective. To assess the ability of Medicare claims to identify US hospitals with high rates of
surgical site infection (SSI) after hip arthroplasty. Design. Retrospective cohort study. Setting …