Six years of surgical wound infection surveillance at a tertiary care center: Review of the microbiologic and epidemiological aspects of 20 007 wounds

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 134, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1041-1048

  Weiss III, Carl A ^b   Statz, Catherine L ^a   Dahms, Rachel A ^a   Remucal, Michael J ^a   Dunn, David L ^b   Beilman, Gregory J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENTEROCOCCUS; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SURGICAL WOUND; WOUND INFECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 0032844229     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.134.10.1041     Document Type: Article

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