Accounting for incomplete postdischarge follow-up during surveillance of surgical site infection by use of the national nosocomial infections surveillance system's risk index

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 433-439

  Biscione, Fernando Martín ^a   Couto, Renato Camargos ^a   Pedrosa, Tânia M G ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL HYSTERECTOMY; ACCOUNTING; ARTICLE; BRAZIL; CALIBRATION; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HERNIORRHAPHY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; LAPAROTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL RISK; UROLOGIC SURGERY; CLASSIFICATION; CROSS INFECTION; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; METHODOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; RISK ASSESSMENT; ROC CURVE; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURGERY;

BRAZIL; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; PATIENT DISCHARGE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; RISK ASSESSMENT; ROC CURVE; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 67649717008     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/596732     Document Type: Article

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