Guidelines for Prevention of Surgical Wound Infection

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 118, Issue 10, 1983, Pages 1213-1217

  Polk, Hiram C ^a   Simpson, Christopher J ^a   Simmons, Bryan P ^a   Alexander, J Wesley ^a  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLICATION; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; INJURY; METHODOLOGY; PREVENTION; SHORT SURVEY; WOUND INFECTION;

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, LOCAL; ANTIBIOTICS; ANTISEPSIS; HUMAN; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 0020608675     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: 15383644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.1983.01390100075019     Document Type: Article

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