Comparison of costs of surgical site infection and endometritis after cesarean delivery using claims and medical record data

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 872-875

  Olsen, Margaret A ^a   Butler, Anne M ^a   Willers, Denise M ^a   Gross, Gilad A ^a   Fraser, Victoria J ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ANEMIA; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETERIZATION; CESAREAN SECTION; CHORIOAMNIONITIS; DRAIN; ECLAMPSIA AND PREECLAMPSIA; ENDOMETRITIS; FEMALE; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HEALTH CARE COST; HEMATOMA; HOSPITAL COST; HUMAN; LABOR INDUCTION; LUNG COLLAPSE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PNEUMONIA; PREGNANCY DIABETES MELLITUS; RACE; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; STEROID THERAPY; SURGICAL INFECTION; TRANSFUSION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COST OF ILLNESS; ECONOMICS; INSURANCE; MEDICAL RECORD; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREGNANCY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CESAREAN SECTION; COST OF ILLNESS; ENDOMETRITIS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HOSPITAL COSTS; HUMANS; INSURANCE CLAIM REVIEW; MEDICAL RECORDS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 77955863848     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/655435     Document Type: Article

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