Agreement among Healthcare Professionals in Ten European Countries in Diagnosing Case-Vignettes of Surgical-Site Infections

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 7, 2013, Pages

  Birgand, Gabriel ^a   Lepelletier, Didier ^b   Baron, Gabriel ^c   Barrett, Steve ^d   Breier, Ann Christin ^e   Buke, Cagri ^f   Markovic Denic, Ljiljana ^g   Gastmeier, Petra ^e   Kluytmans, Jan ^h   Lyytikainen, Outi ⁱ   Sheridan, Elizabeth ^j   Szilagyi, Emese ^k   Tacconelli, Evelina ^l   Troillet, Nicolas ^m   Ravaud, Philippe ^c   Lucet, Jean Christophe ^a  

^a BICHAT HOSPITAL   (France)

^b NANTES UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^c HÔTEL DIEU   (France)

^d BASILDON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^f EGE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

^g Institute of Epidemiology   (Serbia)

^h AMPHIA HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

ⁱ NATIONAL PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^j PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^k Office of the Chief Medical Officer   (Hungary)

^l CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^m Central Institute of the Valais Hospitals   (Switzerland)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DATA BASE; EUROPE; GERMANY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; KAPPA STATISTICS; LIKERT SCALE; PHYSICIAN; SCORING SYSTEM; SURGEON; SURGICAL INFECTION;

CLINICAL COMPETENCE; CROSS INFECTION; EUROPE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; PHYSICIANS; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 84879964828     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0068618     Document Type: Article

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