A national survey of surgical antibiotic prophylaxis in Turkey

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 758-761

  Hosoglu, Salih ^a,j   Sunbul, Mustafa ^b   Erol, Serpil ^c   Altindis, Mustafa ^d   Caylan, Rahmet ^e   Demirdag, Kutbettin ^f   Ucmak, Hasan ^a   Mendes, Havva ^a   Geyik, Mehmet Faruk ^a   Turgut, Huseyin ^g   Gundes, Sibel ^h   Doyuk, Elif Kartal ⁱ   Aldemir, Mustafa ^a   Dokucu, Ali Ihsan ^a  

^a DICLE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^b ONDOKUZ MAYIS UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^c ATATÜRK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^d Afyon Kocatepe Universitesi Rektorluk Ahmet Necdet Sezer Arastirma ve Uygulama Hastanesi   (Turkey)

^e KARADENIZ TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^f FIRAT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^g PAMUKKALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^h KOCAELI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

ⁱ GAZI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^j DICLE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFAZOLIN; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; CIPROFLOXACIN; MEROPENEM; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ABDOMINAL HYSTERECTOMY; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; APPENDECTOMY; BRAIN TUMOR; BREAST SURGERY; CARDIOVASCULAR SURGERY; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CYSTOSCOPY; GENERAL HOSPITAL; GENERAL SURGERY; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; HERNIA; HERNIOPLASTY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDIASTINUM TUMOR; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; NEUROSURGERY; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PROSTATECTOMY; PROSTHESIS; REVIEW; SPINE SURGERY; SURGEON; SURGICAL INFECTION; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; UROLOGIC SURGERY; UTERUS MYOMA; VARICOCELE;

ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; QUESTIONNAIRES; SPECIALTIES, SURGICAL; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TURKEY;

EID: 10744220090     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/502127     Document Type: Review

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