Laminar airflow ceiling size: No impact on infection rates following hip and knee prosthesis

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 32, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1097-1102

  Breier, Ann Christin ^a   Brandt, Christian ^b   Sohr, Dorit ^a   Geffers, Christine ^a   Gastmeier, Petra ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; ELECTIVE SURGERY; HIP FRACTURE; HIP PROSTHESIS; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; KNEE PROSTHESIS; LAMINAR AIRFLOW; LAMINAR AIRFLOW CEILING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OPERATING ROOM; OSTEOARTHRITIS;

AGED; AIR; AIR MICROBIOLOGY; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, HIP; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OPERATING ROOMS; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; VENTILATION;

EID: 80054872628     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/662182     Document Type: Article

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