Prospective study of use of perioperative antimicrobial therapy in general surgery

Surgical Infections

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 355-360

  Fennessy, Brendan G ^a   O'Sullivan, Martin J ^a   Fulton, Greg J ^a   Kirwan, William O ^a   Redmond, H Paul ^a  

^a University College Cork and INFANT Centre   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; AMPICILLIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFUROXIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; FLUCLOXACILLIN; METRONIDAZOLE; PENICILLIN G;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; APPENDECTOMY; APPENDICITIS; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; FEMALE; GENERAL SURGERY; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL INFECTION; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL; VASCULAR SURGERY; AMBULATORY SURGERY; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG UTILIZATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AMBULATORY SURGICAL PROCEDURES; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS INFECTION; DRUG UTILIZATION; FEMALE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERIOPERATIVE CARE; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 33947709420     PISSN: 10962964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/sur.2006.7.355     Document Type: Article

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