Risk factors for and effect of a one-year surveillance program on surgical site infection at a University Hospital in Turkey

Surgical Infections

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 519-526

  Kaya, Ekrem ^a,b   Yetim, Ibrahim ^a   Dervisoglu, Adem ^a   Sunbul, Mustafa ^a   Bek, Yuksel ^a  

^a ONDOKUZ MAYIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^b ULUDAG UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAMOTIDINE;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; DEMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; EMERGENCY SURGERY; ESTHETIC SURGERY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INCISION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MALNUTRITION; OBESITY; OPERATION DURATION; PERIODIC MEDICAL EXAMINATION; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; RISK FACTOR; SMOKING; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL STAPLING; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; WOUND INFECTION;

ADULT; AGED; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TURKEY;

EID: 33847382053     PISSN: 10962964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/sur.2006.7.519     Document Type: Article

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