Past history of skin infection and risk of surgical site infection after elective surgery

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 257, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 150-154

  Faraday, Nauder ^a   Rock, Peter ^b   Lin, Elaina E ^a   Perl, Trish M ^c   Carroll, Karen ^a   Stierer, Tracey ^a   Robarts, Polly ^a   McFillin, Angela ^a   Ross, Tracy ^a   Shah, Ashish S ^a   Riley, Lee H ^a   Tamargo, Rafael J ^a   Black, James H ^a   Blasco Colmenares, Elena ^a   Guallar, Eliseo ^d  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c DEPARTMENT OF PATHOLOGY   (United States)

^d JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Infection control; Staphylococcus aureus; surgical site infection; wound infection

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CRANIOTOMY; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SKIN INFECTION; SPINE SURGERY; SURGICAL INFECTION; VASCULAR SURGERY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PROPENSITY SCORE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SKIN DISEASES, BACTERIAL; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, ELECTIVE; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 84871617645     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e3182588abf     Document Type: Article

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