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Johnson & Johnson Health Care Systems Inc. Launches Online Tool to Help Reduce Number of Surgical Site Infections

Published in Medical Devices and Surgical Technology Week, March 6th, 2011

2011 MAR 6 -- Johnson & Johnson Health Care Systems Inc., today launched the Safe Surgery Initiative (www.safesurgeryinitiative.com), a website for providers, health plans and employers to provide customizable tools geared to educate providers and patients about preventing surgical site infections (SSI).

Surgical site infections are a major source of postoperative illness. Each year, approximately 500,000 surgical patients develop SSIs. Although they are preventable, SSIs continue to be a major source of postoperative illness and, less frequently, a cause of death among patients in the United States.(1)

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