Incidence of surgical-site infections and the validity of the national nosocomial infections surveillance system risk index in a general surgical ward in Santa Cruz, Bolivia

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 26-30

  Soleto, Lorena ^a   Pirard, Marianne ^b   Boelaert, Marleen ^d   Peredo, Remberto ^c   Vargas, Reinerio ^c   Gianella, Alberto ^a   Van der Stuyft, Patrick ^d  

^a CENETROP   (Bolivia)

^b Belg Agy for Devmt Co operation   (Bolivia)

^c Hospital San Juan de Dios   (Bolivia)

^d INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BOLIVIA; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL WARD; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADULT; AGED; BOLIVIA; CROSS INFECTION; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, PUBLIC; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 0037231612     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/502111     Document Type: Article

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