Seasonal variation of common surgical site infections: Does season matter?

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 36, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1011-1016

  Durkin, Michael J ^a,b,c,d   Dicks, Kristen V ^a,b,c   Baker, Arthur W ^a,b,c   Lewis, Sarah S ^a,b,c   Moehring, Rebekah W ^a,b,c,d   Chen, Luke F ^a,b,c   Sexton, Daniel J ^a,b,c   Anderson, Deverick J ^a,b,c  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center ^*  (United States)

^d DURHAM VA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL HYSTERECTOMY; APPENDECTOMY; ARTICLE; BREAST SURGERY; CESAREAN SECTION; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; COAGULASE NEGATIVE STAPHYLOCOCCUS; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLON SURGERY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; GRAM POSITIVE INFECTION; HERNIORRHAPHY; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; LAMINECTOMY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; METHICILLIN SUSCEPTIBLE STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); NONHUMAN; OPEN REDUCTION; PREVALENCE; PROTEUS; PSEUDOMONAS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPINE FUSION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STOMACH SURGERY; SUMMER; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TOTAL HIP PROSTHESIS; TOTAL KNEE REPLACEMENT; VAGINAL HYSTERECTOMY; BACILLUS; GRAM POSITIVE COCCI; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; MICROBIOLOGY; SEASON; SPINE; SURGERY; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; UNITED STATES;

BACILLUS; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; GRAM-POSITIVE COCCI; HUMANS; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEASONS; SOUTHEASTERN UNITED STATES; SPINE; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 84947486148     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: 15596834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/ice.2015.121     Document Type: Article

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