Datasets / NHS England: Surgical site infections - Orthopaedic, to enable Trusts to benchmark their rates against national rates

NHS England: Surgical site infections - Orthopaedic, to enable Trusts to benchmark their rates against national rates

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Published By Health and Social Care Information Centre

Issued almost 10 years ago

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Summary

Type of release
ongoing release of a series of related datasets

Licence
UK Open Government Licence

Verification
automatically awarded

Description

SSI are an important cause of morbidity and mortality and significantly increase the costs of care. Surveillance and feedback of rates of SSI to surgical teams has been shown to reduce the rate at which these infections occur. This surveillance enables Trusts to benchmark their rates of SSI in these categories of procedure against national rates derived from aggregate data

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