Reduction in incidence of deep sternal wound infections: Random or real?

Journal of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 139, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 680-685

  Matros, Evan ^a   Aranki, Sary F ^a   Bayer, Lauren R ^a   McGurk, Siobhan ^a   Neuwalder, Jennifer ^a   Orgill, Dennis P ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP STERNAL WOUND INFECTION; DEMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RATE; INFECTION RISK; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OBESITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; SMOKING; STERNOTOMY; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; WOUND INFECTION;

AGED; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STERNUM; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 76749125360     PISSN: 00225223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2009.10.006     Document Type: Article

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