Surgical site infections in orthopedic patients: Prospective cohort study

Croatian Medical Journal

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 58-65

  Maksimović, Jadranka ^a   Marković Denić, Ljiljana ^a   Bumbaširević, Marko ^b   Marinković, Jelena ^a   Vlajinac, Hristina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

^b CLINICAL CENTER OF SERBIA   (Serbia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHI SQUARE TEST; CHILD; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INFANT; INFECTION RISK; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SOCIETY; MORBIDITY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OPERATING ROOM; PATHOGENESIS; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SERBIA; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURGICAL WARD; SURGICAL WOUND; TEACHING HOSPITAL; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFECTION CONTROL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ORTHOPEDICS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YUGOSLAVIA;

EID: 40449130932     PISSN: 03539504     EISSN: 13328166     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3325/cmj.2008.1.58     Document Type: Article

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