Increase in the rate of sternal surgical site infection after coronary artery bypass graft: A marker of higher severity of illness

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 655-660

  Fakih, Mohamad G ^a,b   Sharma, Mamta ^a,b   Khatib, Riad ^a,b   Berriel Cass, Dorine ^a   Meisner, Susan ^a   Harrington, Steven ^a   Saravolatz, Louis ^a,b  

^a ST JOHN HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; CANDIDA KRUSEI; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; COMORBIDITY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CORYNEBACTERIUM; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; GRAM NEGATIVE ANAEROBIC BACTERIA; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RATE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RISK FACTOR; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STERNUM; SURGICAL INFECTION;

ADULT; AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HOSPITALS, COMMUNITY; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MICHIGAN; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STERNUM; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34250707851     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/518347     Document Type: Article

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