Validation of administrative population-based data sets for the detection of cesarean delivery surgical site infection

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1213-1215

  Daneman, Nick ^a,b   Ma, Xiaomu ^b   Eng Chong, Melanie ^b   Callery, Sandra ^a   Guttman, Astrid ^a,c,d  

^a INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

^b SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CESAREAN SECTION; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PHYSICIAN; SURGICAL INFECTION;

ALGORITHMS; CESAREAN SECTION; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HOSPITAL RECORDS; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; ONTARIO; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 80955148204     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/662623     Document Type: Article

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