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SSISSI—Enough trouble to name it double? Commentary on “Serious superficial incisional surgical site infections (SSISSI): A proposed surveillance definition”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 October 2019

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Robert A. Weinstein*
Affiliation:
Department of Medicine, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois Cook County Health, Chicago, Illinois
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Author for correspondence: Robert A. Weinstein MD, Rush University Medical Center, 1900 W Polk St, Room 634, Chicago IL 60612. E-mail: robert_weinstein@rush.edu
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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 40 , Issue 11 , November 2019 , pp. 1260 - 1261
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© 2019 by The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America. All rights reserved. 

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