Developing a risk stratification model for surgical site infection after abdominal hysterectomy

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 30, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1077-1083

  Olsen, Margaret A ^a   Higham Kessler, James ^a   Yokoe, Deborah S ^b,c   Butler, Anne M ^a   Vostok, Johanna ^c   Stevenson, Kurt B ^d,e,f   Khan, Yosef ^d,e,f   Fraser, Victoria J ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c HARVARD PILGRIM HEALTH CARE   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^e OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL HYSTERECTOMY; ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BODY MASS; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MORBID OBESITY; OPERATION DURATION; PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SKIN INCISION; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURGICAL INFECTION; VAGINAL HYSTERECTOMY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CROSS INFECTION; HYSTERECTOMY; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; STATISTICS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BODY MASS INDEX; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; INCIDENCE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 71949123542     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/606166     Document Type: Article

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