Reporting surgical site infections following total hip and knee arthroplasty: Impact of limiting surveillance to the operative hospital

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 57, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1282-1288

  Yokoe, Deborah S ^a   Avery, Taliser R ^b   Platt, Richard ^b   Huang, Susan S ^b,c  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

infection control; orthopedic surgical procedures; surgical wound infection; value based purchasing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; ICD-9-CM; INFECTION CONTROL; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURCHASING; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL INFECTION; TIME TO TREATMENT; TOTAL HIP PROSTHESIS; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT;

INFECTION CONTROL; ORTHOPEDIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; VALUE-BASED PURCHASING;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, HIP; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; CALIFORNIA; COHORT STUDIES; DISEASE NOTIFICATION; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; FEMALE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT READMISSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 84886881920     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: 15376591     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cid/cit516     Document Type: Article

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