Trends in postoperative sepsis: Are we improving outcomes?

Surgical Infections

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 71-78

  Vogel, Todd R ^a   Dombrovskiy, Viktor Y ^a   Lowry, Stephen F ^a  

^a ROBERT WOOD JOHNSON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; REGISTER; SEPSIS; SEX RATIO; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW JERSEY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; REGISTRIES; SEPSIS; SEX DISTRIBUTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67649528894     PISSN: 10962964     EISSN: 15578674     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/sur.2008.046     Document Type: Article

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