INFECTION CONTROL TO AVOID SURGICAL SITE INFECTION
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Postoperative bacteremia secondary to surgical site infection.
We evaluated all surgical site infections (SSI) and postoperative bacteremias secondary to SSI as part of an ongoing active surgical surveillance program at a community hospital. Among 40,191 surgical procedures, we identified 515 patients with SSI and 47 with postoperative bacteremia secondary to SSI. Four variables were examined as potential predictors for developing postoperative bacteremia ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the Egyptian Society of Parasitology
سال: 2013
ISSN: 2090-2549
DOI: 10.21608/jesp.2013.94813