Stapleton EJ, Frane N, Lentz JM, et al. - Researchers examined the association of perioperative use of disposable jackets with the incidence of surgical site infections. They retrospectively reviewed surgical site infection data for 60,009 patients who underwent clean surgical procedures at 12 hospitals in a large multicenter healthcare organization during a 55-month period from January 1, 2014, to July 31, 2018. They formed two groups of the patient population; the preintervention group consisted of 29,098 patients within 26 months before the policy starting March 1, 2016, and the postintervention group consisted of 30,911 patients within 26 months after the policy. Outcomes revealed no association between the implementation of a mandated policy for use of disposable perioperative jackets with significant reductions in the surgical site infection incidence in clean procedures.