Researchers developed and validated a new classification system that may standardize reporting of all relevant grades of clinical presentation and management of surgical site outcomes, according to published results.
To develop a classification system for dehiscence, inflammation/infection, seroma and hematoma (DISH) that would apply across multiple medical specialties, Giles Bond-Smith, MBBS, BSc, FRCS, a consultant liver, pancreatic and biliary, abdominal wall reconstruction and emergency surgeon at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, and colleagues performed a systematic