Diagnosis data, rather than documentation data, for surgical wound classifications provides a more accurate picture of surgical site infection rates, due to the discrepancies appearing in the wound ...

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Wound severity was scored using a revised Photographic Wound Assessment Tool (revPWAT). Two independent raters evaluated each wound for granulation tissue type, granulation tissue amount, wound edges, ...

"Physicians should feel more confident in following the recent guideline recommendations both to use race-neutral reference equations and to use z scores for assessing severity…Together, these changes ...