Quality improvement initiative: Preventative Surgical Site Infection Protocol in Vascular Surgery

Vascular

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2018, Pages 47-53

  Parizh, David ^a   Ascher, Enrico ^a   Raza Rizvi, Syed Ali ^a   Hingorani, Anil ^a   Amaturo, Michael ^a   Johnson, Eric ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

arterial bypass; femoral incision; Surgical Care Improvement Project; Surgical site infection; vascular surgery; wound infection

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFAZOLIN; PENICILLIN G; POLIGLECAPRONE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERY BYPASS; ARTICLE; AXILLOFEMORAL ARTERY ANASTOMOSIS; BODY MASS; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EVALUATION AND FOLLOW UP; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEMATOMA; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; HYPOALBUMINEMIA; INFECTION RATE; INTERVENTION STUDY; LOWER LIMB; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVASCULARIZATION; SURGICAL INFECTION; THROMBECTOMY; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; VASCULAR SURGERY; WOUND CLOSURE; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; INFECTION CONTROL; MICROBIOLOGY; NEW YORK; PROCEDURES; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RISK FACTOR; STANDARDS; TIME FACTOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULARIZATION; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFECTION CONTROL; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW YORK; PROGRAM EVALUATION; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; QUALITY INDICATORS, HEALTH CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES; WOUND CLOSURE TECHNIQUES;

EID: 85041861091     PISSN: 17085381     EISSN: 1708539X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1708538117719155     Document Type: Article

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