Risk factors and outcomes associated with surgical site infections after craniotomy or craniectomy clinical article

Journal of Neurosurgery

Volumn 120, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 509-521

  Chiang, Hsiu Yin ^a,d   Kamath, Aparna S ^a   Pottinger, Jean M ^b   Greenlee, Jeremy D W ^a   Howard III, Matthew A ^a   Cavanaugh, Joseph E ^c   Herwaldt, Loreen A ^a,b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS AND CLINICS   (United States)

^c Departments of Biostatistics and Epidemiology   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

Craniectomy; Craniotomy; Outcome; Risk factor; Surgical site infection

Indexed keywords

CARMUSTINE; GLUCOSE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHEMOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIECTOMY; CRANIOTOMY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LENGTH OF STAY; LIQUORRHEA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MIDDLE AGED; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; RISK FACTOR; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SURGICAL INFECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CRANIOTOMY; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; PATIENT READMISSION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RISK FACTORS; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84893257328     PISSN: 00223085     EISSN: 19330693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3171/2013.9.JNS13843     Document Type: Article

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