A Pilot Use of Patient-Generated Wound Data to Improve Postdischarge Surgical Site Infection Monitoring

JAMA Surg. 2017 Jun 1;152(6):595-596. doi: 10.1001/jamasurg.2017.0568.

Authors

Heather L Evans¹, William B Lober²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Surgery, University of Washington, Seattle.
² Department of Biobehavioral Nursing and Health Informatics, University of Washington, Seattle.

PMID: 28423162
DOI: 10.1001/jamasurg.2017.0568

No abstract available

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Humans
Incidence
Patient Compliance*
Patient Discharge*
Patient Reported Outcome Measures*
Pilot Projects
Surgical Wound Infection / epidemiology
Surgical Wound Infection / prevention & control*
United States / epidemiology