Improving outcomes of coronary artery bypass graft infections with multiple interventions: Putting science and data to the test

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 517-519

  Lutarewych, Michael ^a   Morgan, Sandra P ^a   Hall, Melanie M ^a  

^a SW Florida Regional Medical Center ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; PSEUDOMONIC ACID;

ARTICLE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; GRAFT INFECTION; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; SURGICAL INFECTION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; COMORBIDITY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CROSS INFECTION; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; FLORIDA; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; MALE; MUPIROCIN; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 2942627125     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/502433     Document Type: Article

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