The continuous quality improvement team is monitoring the nursing care of clean-contaminated wounds. Which operative wound would be excluded from this study?

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The operative wound from a breast biopsy is considered a clean wound and not a clean-contaminated wound, so it would be excluded from the study. The other surgeries listed (gastric resection, lung resection, and uncomplicated abdominal hysterectomy) are considered clean-contaminated wounds and would be included in the study.

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