Beyond 30 days: Does limiting the duration of surgical site infection follow-up limit detection?

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 202-204

  Lankiewicz, Julie D ^a   Yokoe, Deborah S ^b   Olsen, Margaret A ^a   Onufrak, Fallon ^c   Fraser, Victoria J ^c   Stevenson, Kurt ^d   Khan, Yosef ^d   Hooper, David ^e   Platt, Richard ^a   Huang, Susan S ^f  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY WEXNER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; MASTECTOMY; MEDICAID; MEDICARE; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL TRAINING;

COHORT STUDIES; DISEASE NOTIFICATION; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; PATIENT DISCHARGE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84862932680     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/663715     Document Type: Article

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