An alternative scoring system to predict risk for surgical site infection complicating coronary artery bypass graft surgery

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1162-1168

  Friedman, N Deborah ^a,d   Bull, Ann L ^a   Russo, Philip L ^a   Leder, Karin ^b   Reid, Christopher ^b   Billah, Baki ^b   Marasco, Silvana ^c   McBryde, Emma ^a   Richards, Michael J ^a  

^a Victorian Hospital Acquired Infection Surveillance System VICNISS Coordinating Centre   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c ALFRED HOSPITAL   (Australia)

^d VICNISS Coordinating Centre   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BODY MASS; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DATA BASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RATING SCALE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SURGEON; SURGICAL INFECTION; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

BODY MASS INDEX; COHORT STUDIES; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMANS; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 35348901906     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/519534     Document Type: Article

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