Improving timely surgical antibiotic prophylaxis redosing administration using computerized record prompts

Surgical Infections

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 215-221

  St Jacques, Paul ^a   Sanders, Neal ^a   Patel, Nimesh ^a   Talbot, Thomas R ^a   Deshpande, Jayant K ^a   Higgins, Michael ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFAZOLIN; CEFEPIME; CEFOTETAN; CEFOXITIN; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFUROXIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; LINEZOLID; METRONIDAZOLE; PIPERACILLIN; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; SULTAMICILLIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANESTHESIA; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COMPUTER SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DOSE REGIMEN; DRUG HALF LIFE; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATION; OPERATION DURATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMINDER SYSTEM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCORING SYSTEM; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADULT; AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; HUMANS; INTRAOPERATIVE CARE; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; MIDDLE AGED; REMINDER SYSTEMS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 25844449666     PISSN: 10962964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/sur.2005.6.215     Document Type: Article

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