Total and attributable costs of surgical-wound infections at a Canadian tertiary-care center

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 254-259

  Zoutman, Dick ^a,b   McDonald, Shirley ^a   Vethanayagan, Dilini ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b KINGSTON GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANADA; ECONOMICS; GENERAL HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY; HOSPITAL COST; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; LENGTH OF STAY; STANDARD; SURGICAL INFECTION; TEACHING HOSPITAL;

HOSPITAL BED CAPACITY, 300 TO 499; HOSPITAL COSTS; HOSPITALS, GENERAL; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; LENGTH OF STAY; ONTARIO; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 0032040549     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/30142416     Document Type: Article

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