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Actual antibiotic administration stratified by range of operative levels. Because current guidelines for surgical antibiotic prophylaxis are the same for spine surgeries performed at all operative levels, observed patterns of antibiotic administration were uniform across anatomic regions and did not mirror the gradient observed in SSI microbiology. SSI indicates surgical site infection.
