Impact of surgical care improvement Project Inf-9 on postoperative urinary tract infections: Do exemptions interfere with quality patient care?

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 147, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 946-953

  Owen, Rachel M ^a   Perez, Sebastian D ^a   Bornstein, William A ^b   Sweeney, John F ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; INDWELLING URINARY CATHETER; INFECTION RATE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PANCREAS SURGERY; PATIENT CARE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGERY; SURGICAL CARE IMPROVEMENT PROJECT INF 9; THORAX EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

BACTERIURIA; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; CAUSALITY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CROSS INFECTION; DEVICE REMOVAL; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; FEMALE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODDS RATIO; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES; URINARY CATHETERS; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 84867643982     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: 15383644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.2012.1485     Document Type: Article

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