Implications of 2,457 consecutive surgical infections entering year 2000

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 233, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 867-874

  Sawyer, Robert G ^a,b   Raymond, Daniel P ^a   Pelletier, Shawn J ^a   Crabtree, Traves D ^a   Gleason, Thomas G ^a   Pruett, Timothy L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIPROFLOXACIN; METRONIDAZOLE; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; VANCOMYCIN;

ABDOMINAL INFECTION; ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMMUNITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LUNG INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL TRAINING; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; WOUND INFECTION;

ABDOMEN; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED INFECTIONS; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG RESISTANCE, MICROBIAL; FEMALE; FLUOROQUINOLONES; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INTENSIVE CARE UNITS; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGERY; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TRAUMA CENTERS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VIRGINIA;

EID: 0034988442     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000658-200106000-00018     Document Type: Conference Paper

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