Epidemiological surveillance is one of the eight core components of the World Health Organization Infection Prevention and Control Programmes. These include surveillance programmes for surgical site infection (SSI).
At present, for SSI surveillance, infection control teams perform a manual time-consuming work, which could make a transition to automated surveillance leveraging the new information technology.
This study aimed to evaluate the ability of ChatGPT-4o to detect surgical site infection at the three anatomical levels.
Elective colorectal resection
Emergency surgery
Infection present at operation
Previous intestinal stoma