Agreement among health care professionals in diagnosing case vignette-based surgical site infections

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Lepelletier, Didier ^a,b   Ravaud, Philippe ^b,c,d   Baron, Gabriel ^b,c,d   Lucet, Jean Christophe ^a,b  

^a BICHAT HOSPITAL   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^c ASSISTANCE PUBLIQUE HÔPITAUX DE PARIS   (France)

^d INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHESIST; ARTICLE; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONSENSUS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; FRANCE; GASTROINTESTINAL SURGERY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL PHYSICIAN; INFECTION CONTROL PRACTITIONER; INFECTIOUS DISEASE SPECIALIST; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MICROBIOLOGY; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PROFESSIONAL STANDARD; PUBLIC HEALTH SPECIALIST; SCORING SYSTEM; SURGEON; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL PATIENT; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; VIGNETTE;

FRANCE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 84859858324     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0035131     Document Type: Article

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