The objective of this study is to determine whether hair clipping is non-inferior to no hair removal in preventing superficial, deep, and organ space surgical site infections (SSI) in patients undergoing various general surgical procedures, evaluated after surgery by an assessor blinded to treatment allocation. Additional goals include evaluating wound complications that arise in patients that have hair clipped and in patients that do not have hair removed and determining the impact of clipping versus no hair removal and SSI versus no SSI on length of hospital stay.
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To determine the proportion of patients without a surgical site infection (as defined by CDC criteria) at the postoperative assessment for patients who had hair clipped versus those with no hair removal preoperatively.
Timeframe: 14 (+/-7) days after surgery