Using surveillance data to direct infection control efforts to reduce surgical-site infections following clean abdominal operations in Japan

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2002, Pages 404-406

  Morikane, Keita ^a   Nishioka, Midori ^b   Tanimura, Hisami ^c   Noguchi, Hiroe ^c   Konishi, Toshiro ^c   Kobayashi, Hiroyoshi ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b Gifu College of Nursing   (Japan)

^c Kanto Teishin Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ARTICLE; CONTAMINATION; DATA ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; SURGICAL INFECTION;

EID: 0036329236     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/502075     Document Type: Article

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