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Five-year trend of departmental surgical site infection rate in colorectal operations. The arrow indicates when the oral antibiotic bowel preparation protocol was introduced (error bars, 95% confidence intervals, yellow line, surgical site infection rate in peer group hospitals). Source: ACS-NSQIP database.
