A system and process redesign to improve perioperative antibiotic administration

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 103, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1517-1521

  Kanter, Gary ^a   Connelly, Neil Roy ^a   Fitzgerald, Jan ^a  

^a BAYSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ANESTHESIST; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; DRUG CHOICE; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INCISION; INFECTION PREVENTION; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MEDICAL EDUCATION; OPERATING ROOM; PEROPERATIVE CARE; PEROPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRESCRIPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DESIGN; SURGICAL INFECTION; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; COST SAVINGS; HUMANS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33845610576     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1213/01.ane.0000221442.30952.83     Document Type: Article

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