Best-practice protocols: preventing surgical site infection

Nursing Management

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2005, Pages 20-26

  Griffin, Frances A ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR HEALTHCARE IMPROVEMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; BODY TEMPERATURE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; ESTHETIC SURGERY; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; METHODOLOGY; NURSING; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; STANDARD; SURGICAL INFECTION;

ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HAIR REMOVAL; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 33644836933     PISSN: 07446314     EISSN: 15388670     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006247-200511000-00006     Document Type: Article

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