Improving cardiac surgical site infection reporting and prevention by using registry data for case ascertainment presented at the Fifty-first Annual Meeting of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons, San Diego, CA, Jan 24-28, 2015.

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 190-199

  Nayar, Vaidehi ^a   Kennedy, Andrea ^a   Pappas, Janine ^a   Atchley, Krista D ^a   Field, Cynthia ^a   Smathers, Sarah ^a   Teszner, Eva E ^a   Sammons, Julia S ^a   Coffin, Susan E ^a   Gerber, Jeffrey S ^a   Spray, Thomas L ^a   Steven, James M ^a   Bell, Louis M ^a   Forrer, Joan ^a   Gonzalez, Fernando ^a   Chi, Albert ^a   Nieczpiel, William J ^a   Martin, John N ^a   William Gaynor, J ^a  

^a CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CARDIAC SURGICAL SITE INFECTION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DATA BASE; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGISTER; SURGICAL INFECTION; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; WOUND; ADVERSE EFFECTS; CHILD; DISEASE NOTIFICATION; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; FEMALE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; MALE; MORBIDITY; PENNSYLVANIA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TRENDS;

CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CHILD; DISEASE NOTIFICATION; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; FEMALE; HEART DEFECTS, CONGENITAL; HUMANS; MALE; MORBIDITY; PENNSYLVANIA; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 84955691452     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: 15526259     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2015.07.042     Document Type: Conference Paper

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