Impact of an Automated Surveillance to Detect Surgical-Site Infections in Patients Undergoing Total Hip and Knee Arthroplasty in Brazil

Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 991-993

  Perdiz, Luciana B ^a   Yokoe, Deborah S ^b   Furtado, Guilherme H ^a   Medeiros, Eduardo A S ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ANTIMICROBIAL THERAPY; ARTICLE; AUTOMATED SURVEILLANCE; AUTOMATION; BRAZIL; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; SURGICAL INFECTION; TOTAL HIP PROSTHESIS; TOTAL KNEE ARTHROPLASTY; CROSS INFECTION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HIP REPLACEMENT; KNEE REPLACEMENT; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, HIP; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; AUTOMATION; BRAZIL; CROSS INFECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 84979940071     PISSN: 0899823X     EISSN: 15596834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/ice.2016.86     Document Type: Article

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