Disposable surgical face masks for preventing surgical wound infection in clean surgery

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Volumn 2016, Issue 4, 2016, Pages

  Vincent, Marina ^a   Edwards, Peggy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CINAHL; COCHRANE LIBRARY; DISPOSABLE EQUIPMENT; EMBASE; FACE MASK; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; MEDLINE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REGISTER; REVIEW; RISK; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL MASK; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; MASK; META ANALYSIS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

DISPOSABLE EQUIPMENT; HUMANS; MASKS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 84964527186     PISSN: 14651858     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.CD002929.pub3     Document Type: Review

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