Length of stay and cost for surgical site infection after abdominal and cardiac surgery in Japanese hospitals: Multi-center surveillance

Surgical Infections

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 257-265

  Kusachi, Shinya ^a   Kashimura, Nobuichi ^b   Konishi, Toshiro ^c   Shimizu, Junzo ^d   Kusunoki, Masato ^e   Oka, Masaaki ^f   Wakatsuki, Toshiro ^g   Kobayashi, Junjiro ^h   Sawa, Yoshiki ⁱ   Imoto, Hiroshi ^j   Motomura, Noboru ^k   Makuuchi, Haruo ^l   Tanemoto, Kazuo ^m   Sumiyama, Yoshinobu ^a  

^a TOHO UNIVERSITY OHASHI MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^b TEINE KEIJINKAI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation Medical Center Tokyo   (Japan)

^d TOYONAKA MUNICIPAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^e MIE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^f YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^g TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^h NATIONAL CEREBRAL AND CARDIOVASCULAR CENTER   (Japan)

ⁱ OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^j KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^k UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^l ST MARIANNA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^m KAWASAKI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

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Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEART SURGERY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; JAPAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL INFECTION;

AGED; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM SURGICAL PROCEDURES; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 84866994355     PISSN: 10962964     EISSN: 15578674     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/sur.2011.007     Document Type: Article

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