Quality of the surveillance of surgical wound infections: A 10-year prospective study of 12,364 wounds

Acta Orthopaedica Scandinavica

Volumn 74, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 175-179

  Sørensen, Allan Ibsen ^a,b   Sørensen, Torben Sandberg ^a   Bremmelgaard, Annie ^a  

^a FREDERIKSBERG HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b NONE   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; REVIEW;

HOSPITAL RECORDS; HUMANS; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; ORTHOPEDIC PROCEDURES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; SURGERY DEPARTMENT, HOSPITAL; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 0038823518     PISSN: 00016470     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00016470310013914     Document Type: Review

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