Enhanced identification of postoperative infections among outpatients

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 10, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 1931-1937

  Miner, Andrew L ^a,b,c,f   Sands, Kenneth E ^a,d   Yokoe, Deborah S ^a,c   Freedman, John ^e   Thompson, Kristin ^b   Livingston, James M ^c   Platt, Richard ^a,b,c,g  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b HARVARD PILGRIM HEALTH CARE   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e Tufts Health Plan   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^g Harvard Medical School ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BREAST SURGERY; CASE MIX; CESAREAN SECTION; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; FEMALE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RATE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTPATIENT; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL PATIENT;

EID: 7644237460     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1011.040784     Document Type: Article

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