Incidence of surgical site infection associated with robotic surgery

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 822-827

  Hermsen, Elizabeth D ^a,b,c   Hinze, Tim ^a   Sayles, Harlan ^a   Sholtz, Lee ^a   Rupp, Mark E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Dick Holland Regenerative Medicine Program   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; COLON SURGERY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; ELECTROSURGERY; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; HERNIORRHAPHY; HUMAN; MALE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE PROCEDURE; OPERATION DURATION; PROSTATE SURGERY; ROBOTICS; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL WOUND; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; UROLOGIC SURGERY; AGED; COHORT ANALYSIS; CROSS INFECTION; INCIDENCE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGERY; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TIME; UNITED STATES;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; ADULT; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEBRASKA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROBOTICS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77955855674     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/654006     Document Type: Article

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