Sternal surgical-site infection following coronary artery bypass graft: Prevalence, microbiology, and complications during a 42-month period

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 468-471

  Sharma, Mamta ^a   Berriel Cass, Dorine ^a   Baran Jr , Joseph ^a  

^a ST JOHN HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PSEUDOMONIC ACID;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; CLASSIFICATION; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; COMMUNITY CARE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE COCCI; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; INFECTION; INFECTION COMPLICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTOR; STERNUM; SURGICAL INFECTION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTEREMIA; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, COMMUNITY; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; MICHIGAN; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STERNUM; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 2942625441     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/502423     Document Type: Article

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