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Can Managed Health Care Help Manage Health-Care-Associated Infections?

Richard Platt* and Blake Caldwell†
*Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, and †Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Figure 3. The proportion of postoperative surgical site infections first identified before and after discharge from hospital in which surgery was performed. Hatched bar (Post/unknown) shows infected women who did not return to the hospital at which surgery was performed. The units on the ordinate are percentages of all procedures (7).

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Figure 3. The proportion of postoperative surgical site infections first identified before and after discharge from hospital in which surgery was performed. Light gray (Post/unknown) shows infected patients who did not return to the hospital at which surgery was performed. The units on the ordinate are percentages of all procedures (7).
 


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