Center-level variation in infection rates after coronary artery bypass grafting

Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 567-573

  Shih, Terry ^a   Zhang, Min ^a   Kommareddi, Mallika ^a   Boeve, Theodore J ^b   Harrington, Steven D ^c   Holmes, Robert J ^d   Roth, Gary ^e   Theurer, Patricia F ^f   Prager, Richard L ^a,f   Likosky, Donald S ^a,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b SPECTRUM HEALTH   (United States)

^c Henry Ford Macomb Hospitals   (United States)

^d McLaren Health System Bay Region   (United States)

^e McLaren Greater Lansing Hospital   (United States)

^f Michigan Society of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgeons Quality Collaborative   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiopulmonary bypass; Infection; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHRONIC LUNG DISEASE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DYSLIPIDEMIA; FEMALE; HEALTHCARE ASSOCIATED INFECTION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INFECTION RATE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIXED INFECTION; PNEUMONIA; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; SEPTICEMIA; SMOKING; SURGICAL INFECTION; THORACOTOMY; VERY ELDERLY; WOUND INFECTION; ADVERSE EFFECTS; CLINICAL TRIAL; HOSPITAL; INCIDENCE; MICHIGAN; MULTICENTER STUDY; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS; FEMALE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MICHIGAN; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL ISCHEMIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 84910144499     PISSN: 19417713     EISSN: 19417705     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCOUTCOMES.113.000770     Document Type: Article

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