Key references: Prevention of surgical wound complications

Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care (ACSQHC). Approaches to surgical site infection surveillance. Sydney: ACSQHC; 2017. www.safetyandquality.gov.au/publications/approaches-to-surgical-site-infection-surveillance/
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Owens CD, Stoessel K. Surgical site infections: epidemiology, microbiology and prevention. J Hosp Infect 2008;70 Suppl 2:3–10. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19022115
Reiffel AJ, Barie PS, Spector JA. A multi-disciplinary review of the potential association between closed-suction drains and surgical site infection. Surg Infect (Larchmt) 2013;14(3):244–69. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23718273
World Health Organization (WHO). Global guidelines for the prevention of surgical site infection. Geneva, Switzerland: WHO; 2018. https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/9789241550475/