Comment from New England Baptist Hospital
New England Baptist HospitalOpposeBusiness
Summary: New England Baptist Hospital opposes the updated 2026 NHSN definition for deep incisional SSIs because it captures noninfectious cases like hematomas and seromas. They argue this increases reporting burdens and costs while artificially inflating standardized infection ratios (SIRs), and they request an edit for the 2027 requirements.
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