Surgical-Site Infections and the NNIS SSI Risk Index: Room for Improvement

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 184-185

  Gaynes, Robert P ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CROSS INFECTION; EDITORIAL; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; RISK FACTOR; SURGICAL INFECTION;

CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CROSS INFECTION; HUMANS; RISK FACTORS; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 0034146587     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: 15596834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/501740     Document Type: Letter

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