Report card on surgical care improvement project (SCIP): Nationwide inpatient sample infection data 2001-2006

Surgical Infections

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 429-434

  Davis, John Mihran ^a   Kuo, Yen Hong ^a   Ahmed, Nasim ^a   Kuo, Yen Liang ^b  

^a JERSEY SHORE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b PINGTUNG CHRISTIAN HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLON RESECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LENGTH OF STAY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL CARE IMPROVEMENT PROJECT; SURGICAL INFECTION;

ADULT; AGED; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLECYSTECTOMY, LAPAROSCOPIC; COLECTOMY; COLONIC NEOPLASMS; DIVERTICULOSIS, COLONIC; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80155164339     PISSN: 10962964     EISSN: 15578674     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/sur.2011.020     Document Type: Article

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