Surgical site infection prevention: Time to move beyond the surgical care improvement program

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 254, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 494-501

  Hawn, Mary T ^a,b   Vick, Catherine C ^a   Richman, Joshua ^a,b   Holman, William ^a,b   Deierhoi, Rhiannon J ^a   Graham, Laura A ^a   Henderson, William G ^c   Itani, Kamal M F ^d  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; QUINOLINE DERIVED ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; VANCOMYCIN; INSULIN; ORAL ANTIDIABETIC AGENT; STEROID;

ADULT; BODY TEMPERATURE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; COLORECTAL SURGERY; COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; CONFERENCE PAPER; DATA BASE; ESTHETIC SURGERY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL CARE IMPROVEMENT PROJECT; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL SITE INFECTION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VETERAN; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLON SURGERY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DIABETES MELLITUS; HEART SURGERY; HIP ARTHROPLASTY; HYSTERECTOMY; INFECTION PREVENTION; KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK REDUCTION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURGICAL RISK; VASCULAR SURGERY;

CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HOSPITALS, VETERANS; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; LINEAR MODELS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80052275486     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e31822c6929     Document Type: Conference Paper

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