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Sommerstein, Rami https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1011-6878
Marschall, Jonas
Atkinson, Andrew
Surbek, Daniel
Dominguez-Bello, Maria Gloria
Troillet, Nicolas
Widmer, Andreas F.
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Funding for this research was provided by:
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung (32003B_179500)
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Received: 2 October 2020
Accepted: 20 November 2020
First Online: 22 December 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: SSI surveillance by <i>Swissnoso</i> () is mandated by Swiss healthcare policies and is considered a quality improvement project. All patients were informed about their automatic inclusion in SSI surveillance on admission and given the opportunity to opt out at the telephone interview. Summary results of the SSI incidences are published yearly (). The study was approved by the Bernese Cantonal human subjects committee (KEK 2019–00294).
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: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.
