The importance of continued quality improvement efforts in monitoring hospital-acquired infection rates: A cardiac surgery experience

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 99, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 2061-2069

  Mocanu, Valentin ^a   Buth, Karen J ^a   Johnston, Lynn B ^a   Davis, Ian ^a   Hirsch, Gregory M ^a   Légaré, Jean Francois ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CREATININE;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CANADA; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEART EJECTION FRACTION; HEART SURGERY; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; KIDNEY FAILURE; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PATIENT MONITORING; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PNEUMONIA; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; RISK FACTOR; SEPSIS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SURGICAL INFECTION; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; CROSS INFECTION; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STANDARDS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TRENDS; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOVA SCOTIA; PREVALENCE; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 84930927113     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: 15526259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2014.12.075     Document Type: Article

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