Comparing postcesarean infectious complication rates using two different skin preparations

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 117, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1123-1129

  Weed, Samantha ^a   Bastek, Jamie A ^b   Sammel, Mary D ^b   Beshara, Mathew ^b   Hoffman, Stacey ^b   Srinivas, Sindhu K ^b  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFAZOLIN; PAINT; POVIDONE IODINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CESAREAN SECTION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG SYNTHESIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RATE; INFECTION RISK; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POSTCESAREAN INFECTION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERAL INFECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCRUB; WOUND COMPLICATION; WOUND INFECTION;

ADULT; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS, LOCAL; CESAREAN SECTION; CLINICAL PROTOCOLS; COHORT STUDIES; DOSAGE FORMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POVIDONE-IODINE; PREGNANCY; PUERPERAL INFECTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79955543646     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/AOG.0b013e3182118e98     Document Type: Article

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