The effect of Surgical Care Improvement Project measures on national trends on surgical site infections in open vascular procedures

Journal of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 1635-1639

  Dua, Anahita ^a   Desai, Sapan S ^b   Seabrook, Gary R ^a   Brown, Kellie R ^a   Lewis, Brian D ^a   Rossi, Peter J ^a   Edmiston, Charles E ^a   Lee, Cheong J ^a  

^a MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; AGED; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION RATE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL INFECTION; VASCULAR SURGERY; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; BLOOD VESSEL TRANSPLANTATION; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PERIPHERAL ARTERIAL DISEASE; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; STANDARDS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TIME; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY;

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; AORTIC ANEURYSM, ABDOMINAL; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; CAROTID ARTERY DISEASES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; ENDARTERECTOMY, CAROTID; FEMALE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PERIPHERAL ARTERIAL DISEASE; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PROGRAM EVALUATION; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 84925225354     PISSN: 07415214     EISSN: 10976809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvs.2014.08.072     Document Type: Conference Paper

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