The Surgical Site Infection Risk Score (SSIRS): A Model to Predict the Risk of Surgical Site Infections

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  van Walraven, Carl ^a,b,c   Musselman, Reilly ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b OTTAWA HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID;

ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CALIBRATION; COMORBIDITY; DEMOGRAPHY; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; MEDICAL HISTORY; METASTASIS; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OPERATION DURATION; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; POPULATION RESEARCH; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SEPSIS; SMOKING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL RISK; SURGICAL SITE INFECTION RISK SCORE; WOUND INFECTION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FEMALE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RANDOMIZATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TIME FACTOR; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; UNITED STATES;

FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84879511982     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0067167     Document Type: Article

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