- Chinn, Raymond;
- Lempp, Jason M;
- Huang, Susan S;
- Murthy, Rekha;
- Torriani, Francesca J;
- Daley, Jacqueline;
- Dekker, Elaine;
- Goss-Bottorff, Barbara;
- Kaler, Wendy;
- Meyer, Karen;
- Myers, Frank;
- Nichols, Amy;
- Quan, Kathleen;
- Birnbaum, David
The government publishes 3 different public report surgical site infection (SSI) metrics, all called standardized infection ratios (SIRs), that impact perceived hospital quality. We conducted a non-random cross-sectional observational pilot study of 20 California hospitals that voluntarily submitted colon surgery and SSI data. Discordant SIR values, leading to contradictory conclusions, occurred in 35% of these hospitals. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2016;1-5.
