The Surgical Site Infection Risk Score (SSIRS): A Model to Predict the Risk of Surgical Site Infections
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The Surgical Site Infection Risk Score (SSIRS): A Model to Predict the Risk of Surgical Site Infections
BACKGROUND Surgical site infections (SSI) are an important cause of peri-surgical morbidity with risks that vary extensively between patients and surgeries. Quantifying SSI risk would help identify candidates most likely to benefit from interventions to decrease the risk of SSI. METHODS We randomly divided all surgeries recorded in the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program from 2010 i...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLoS ONE
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0067167