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NNIS risk index: a standalone construct

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Surgery

a 0 to 3 surgical site infection risk score adding one point each for a contaminated wound, ASA class 3 or above, and a long operation.

In surgery, NNIS risk index refers to a 0 to 3 surgical site infection risk score adding one point each for a contaminated wound, ASA class 3 or above, and a long operation. This meaning comes from Culver (1991) in The American Journal of Medicine.[1]

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References

Culver, D. H., Horan, T. C., Gaynes, R. P., Martone, W. J., Jarvis, W. R., Emori, T. G., Banerjee, S. N., Edwards, J. R., Tolson, J. S., Henderson, T. S., Hughes, J. M., & National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance System (1991). Surgical wound infection rates by wound class, operative procedure, and patient risk index. The American Journal of Medicine, 91(3), S152-S157. https://doi.org/10.1016/0002-9343(91)90361-z

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