Improved risk adjustment for comparison of surgical site infection rates

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 27, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1330-1339

  Geubbels, Eveline L P E ^a,e   Grobbee, Diederick E ^b   Vandenbroucke Grauls, Christina M J E ^d   Wille, Jan C ^c   De Boer, Annette S ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c Dutch Institute for Healthcare Improvement CBO   (Netherlands)

^d VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^e Projet Ubuzima   (Rwanda)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AORTA RECONSTRUCTION; ARTICLE; CESAREAN SECTION; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLON RESECTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMOROPOPLITEAL BYPASS; FEMOROTIBIAL BYPASS; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD; PREDICTION; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SURGICAL INFECTION; TOTAL HIP PROSTHESIS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RISK ADJUSTMENT; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 33845986001     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/509841     Document Type: Article

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