Can we define surgical site infection accurately in colorectal surgery?

Surgical Infections

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 372-376

  Hedrick, Traci L ^a   Sawyer, Robert G ^a   Hennessy, Sara A ^a   Turrentine, Florence E ^a   Friel, Charles M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COLON RESECTION; COLORECTAL SURGERY; CROHN DISEASE; DIVERTICULOSIS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INCISION; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL DOCUMENTATION; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCTOCOLECTOMY; RECTUM ABDOMINOPERINEAL RESECTION; RECTUM ANTERIOR RESECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGEON; SURGICAL INFECTION; ADOLESCENT; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AGED; CLINICAL MEDICINE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; FEMALE; MALE; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CLINICAL MEDICINE; COLORECTAL SURGERY; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84906219560     PISSN: 10962964     EISSN: 15578674     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/sur.2013.013     Document Type: Article

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