DSWI represents an important economic factor for the hospital as they may almost triple the costs for patients undergoing CABG. Thus, appropriate infection control measures for the prevention of DSWI should be enforced.

In this prevalence study, NI were a common complication. Surgical site infections were the single most common type of NI because of the large number of patients that underwent surgical procedures in our institution. More investigation will be needed to assess the benefit of prevalence studies for optimizing appropriate, effective preventive measures.

Costs of SSIs may almost triple the individual overall health care costs and those additional charges may not be sufficiently covered. Appropriate measures to reduce SSI rates must be taken to improve the patient's safety. This should also diminish costs for health care systems which benefits the entire community.

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