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Infirmity and Injury Complexity are Risk Factors for Surgical-site Infection after Operative Fracture Care

BACKGROUND: Orthopaedic surgical-site infections prolong hospital stays, double rehospitalization rates, and increase healthcare costs. Additionally, patients with orthopaedic surgical-site infections (SSI) have substantially greater physical limitations and reductions in their health-related qualit...

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Autores principales: Bachoura, Abdo, Guitton, Thierry G., Smith, R. Malcolm, Vrahas, Mark S., Zurakowski, David, Ring, David
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer-Verlag 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3148392/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21161736
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11999-010-1737-2