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Methods for identifying surgical wound infection after discharge from hospital: a systematic review

BACKGROUND: Wound infections are a common complication of surgery that add significantly to the morbidity of patients and costs of treatment. The global trend towards reducing length of hospital stay post-surgery and the increase in day case surgery means that surgical site infections (SSI) will inc...

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Autores principales: Petherick, Emily S, Dalton, Jane E, Moore, Peter J, Cullum, Nicky
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2006
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1697816/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17129368
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-6-170