New epidemiology for postoperative nosocomial infections

American Surgeon

Volumn 66, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 874-878

  Wallace, W C ^a   Cinat, M E ^a   Nastanski, F ^a   Gornick, W B ^a   Wilson, S E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AMBULATORY SURGERY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; DISEASE SEVERITY; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MYCOSIS; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL PATIENT; WOUND INFECTION;

AMBULATORY SURGICAL PROCEDURES; BACTEREMIA; CALIFORNIA; CANDIDIASIS; CROSS INFECTION; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTENSIVE CARE; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; PATIENT ADMISSION; PNEUMONIA, BACTERIAL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PROSTHESIS-RELATED INFECTIONS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 0033838353     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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