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With the appearance of new wound closure techniques and suture materials, we felt compelled to perform a retrospective study on our institution's neurosurgical population to determine how our institution compared to others in terms of incidence of surgical site infection (SSI). A retrospective analysis was performed at our single institution for all patients that had cranial or spine surgery by a neurosurgeon for the past 15\u2009years. The data were extracted via Crimson Continuum of Care software program and analysed using <jats:italic>\u03c7<\/jats:italic><jats:sup>2<\/jats:sup> and relative risk. The data retrieval software program collected a total of 1184 cranial and spinal surgeries. Of these 1184 cases, 12 resulted in post\u2010operative wound infections. Using these collected values, we compared the results with published values in the literature. Prior studies have shown that up to 33% of surgical cases have post\u2010operative infections. 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