Conflicts in wound classification of neonatal operations

Journal of Pediatric Surgery

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1206-1211

  Vu, Lan T ^a   Nobuhara, Kerilyn K ^a   Lee, Hanmin ^a   Farmer, Diana L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Antibiotics; Neonatal surgery; Pediatrics; Risk assessment; Surgical site infections; Wound classification

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANOPLASTY; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ANUS ATRESIA; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CHILD; COLOSTOMY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ESOPHAGUS ANASTOMOSIS; ESOPHAGUS ATRESIA; GASTROSCHISIS; HEALTH SURVEY; HIRSCHSPRUNG DISEASE; HUMAN; INTERNET; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; INTESTINE RESECTION; LUNG LOBECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MECONIUM PERITONITIS; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; NEWBORN SURGERY; OMPHALOCELE; OVARIECTOMY; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREOPERATIVE TREATMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULL THROUGH OPERATION; SCHOOL CHILD; STOMACH SURGERY; SURGEON; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL WOUND; TRACHEOESOPHAGEAL FISTULA; TREATMENT DURATION; VOLVULUS; WOUND ASSESSMENT;

ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HEALTH CARE SURVEYS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INTERNET; OBSERVER VARIATION; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 66649125470     PISSN: 00223468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2009.02.026     Document Type: Article

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