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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: BMJ Qual Saf. 2017 Nov 24;27(8):600–610. doi: 10.1136/bmjqs-2017-006474

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Timeline of traditional surveillance, Shewhart statistical process control (SPC), and exponentially weighted moving average (EWMA) SPC detection of 10 historic surgical site infection (SSI) outbreaks. SSI outbreaks occurred in the Duke Infection Control Outreach Network (DICON) from 2003 to 2013. *Outbreaks 8 and 10 were not detected by Shewhart or EWMA SPC charts. †Adjacent bars indicate that detection occurred during the same month.