Overall burden of healthcare-associated infections among surgical patients: Results of a national study

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 253, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 365-370

  Sax, Hugo ^a   Uçkay, Ilker ^a   Balmelli, Carlo ^b   Bernasconi, Enos ^b   Boubaker, Karim ^c   Mühlemann, Kathrin ^d   Ruef, Christian ^e   Troillet, Nicolas ^f   Widmer, Andreas ^g   Zanetti, Giorgio ^h   Pittet, Didier ^a  

^a GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^b REGIONAL HOSPITAL OF LUGANO   (Switzerland)

^c FEDERAL OFFICE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^f Central Institute of the Valais Hospitals   (Switzerland)

^g UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^h LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL INFECTION; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BONE INFECTION; BRAIN INFECTION; ENTEROCOCCUS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INFECTIOUS ARTHRITIS; INTENSIVE CARE; INTRAVENOUS CATHETER; LUNG INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASTITIS; MEDIASTINITIS; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL PATIENT; URINARY CATHETER;

AGED; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL UNITS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREVALENCE; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 79151476918     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e318202fda9     Document Type: Article

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