Risk factors for febrile morbidity after hysterectomy

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 103, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 86-91

  Peipert, Jeffrey F ^a,b   Weitzen, Sherry ^a   Cruickshank, Courtney ^a   Story, Errett ^a   Ethridge, Daniel ^a   Lapane, Kate ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Division of Research Women and Infants Hospital   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL HYSTERECTOMY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBIDITY; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VAGINAL HYSTERECTOMY; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; HYSTERECTOMY; MEDICAL RECORD; MIDDLE AGED; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STANDARD; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; HYSTERECTOMY, VAGINAL; MEDICAL RECORDS; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RHODE ISLAND; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 1242286600     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.AOG.0000109219.24211.30     Document Type: Article

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