Evidence-Based Bundled Quality Improvement Intervention for Reducing Surgical Site Infection in Lower Extremity Vascular Bypass Procedures Katherine E. Hekman, MD, PhD, Eriberto Michel, MD, Eddie Blay, MD, Irene B. Helenowski, PhD, Andrew W. Hoel, MD, FACS Journal of the American College of Surgeons Volume 228, Issue 1, Pages 44-53 (January 2019) DOI: 10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2018.10.002 Copyright © 2018 American College of Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Figure 1 Surgical site infection reduction bundle results. Compliance with each component of the bundle 18 months after implementation showed a significant increase in use of the bundle components compared with pre-intervention (p < 0.0001 for each component). Compliance with all 3 bundle components was 35.6%. In-hospital surgical site infection rates in infra-inguinal bypass operations fell from 18% to 4% after implementation of the surgical site infection reduction bundle (p = 0.002). Journal of the American College of Surgeons 2019 228, 44-53DOI: (10.1016/j.jamcollsurg.2018.10.002) Copyright © 2018 American College of Surgeons Terms and Conditions