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Wound infections are common, serious, and expensive complications after surgery. About 5 percent of all patients who have undergone surgery and as many as 10 to 20 percent of patients who have undergone colorectal surgery have postoperative wound infections. Historically, surgical wounds have been classified as clean, clean–contaminated, contaminated, or infected.¹ However, this classification has not proved useful in predicting the occurrence of wound infection,² which is the key to effective prevention. Scoring systems such as that developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for the Study on the Efficacy of Nosocomial Infection Control and the National Nosocomial . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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