In the absence of a mechanical bowel prep, does the addition of pre-operative oral antibiotics to parental antibiotics decrease the incidence of surgical site infection after elective segmental colectomy?

Surgical Infections

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 728-732

  Atkinson, Sarah J ^a,b   Swenson, Brian R ^c   Hanseman, Dennis J ^a,b   Midura, Emily F ^a,b   Davis, Bradley R ^a,b   Rafferty, Janice F ^a,b   Abbott, Daniel E ^a,b   Shah, Shimul A ^a,b   Paquette, Ian M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Cincinnati Research in Outcomes and Safety in Surgery (CROSS)   (United States)

^c Mercy Clinic Colon and Rectal Surgery   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGE; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CANCER SURGERY; COLON CANCER; COLON DIVERTICULOSIS; COLON POLYP; COLON RESECTION; ELECTIVE SURGERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; INFLAMMATORY BOWEL DISEASE; INTESTINE PREPARATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE TREATMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL PATIENT; TREATMENT INDICATION; ADVERSE EFFECTS; INCIDENCE; ORAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PROCEDURES; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; COLECTOMY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84948694271     PISSN: 10962964     EISSN: 15578674     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/sur.2014.215     Document Type: Article

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