Table 2.

Summary of findings.

Findings	Aiken et al	Nguhuni et al	Pathak et al
Patients providing a telephone number, %	>90	84	100
Patients with ≥1 successful telephone follow up who had provided a telephone number, %	Not stated	87	71
Patients contacted by phone and seen in clinic, %	Not stated	73	69
Patients undergoing surgical procedure	89	484	10
Patients with SSIsa that participated in telephone screening, %	Not stated	72	Not stated
SSIs detected over phone or clinic review at day 7	Not stated	11/14	Not stated
SSIs detected over phone or by clinical review at day 14	Not stated	7/11	Not stated
SSIs detected over phone or by clinical review at day 30	Not stated	0/0	Not stated
Total SSIs detected over phone or by clinical review	16 / 23	18 / 25	10 / 10

^aSSI: surgical site infection