Interhospital comparisons of coronary artery bypass graft surgical site infection rates differ if donor sites are excluded

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1210-1212

  Russo, Philip L ^a,e   Gurrin, L ^b   Friedman, N D ^a   Bull, A L ^a   Marasco, S ^c   Kelly, H ^d   Boardman, C J ^a   Richards, M J ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d VICTORIAN INFECTIOUS DISEASES REFERENCE LABORATORY   (Australia)

^e VICNISS Coordinating Centre   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; DONOR SITE; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; INFECTION RISK; SURGICAL INFECTION;

CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; CROSS INFECTION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; STATISTICS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; VICTORIA;

EID: 35348923432     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/520749     Document Type: Article

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