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Current preventive measures for health-care associated surgical site infections: a review

Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) continue to be a tremendous issue today. It is estimated 1.7 million HAIs occur per year, and cost the healthcare system up to $45 billion annually. Surgical site infections (SSIs) alone account for 290,000 of total HAIs and approximately 8,000 deaths. In toda...

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Autores principales: Tsai, David M, Caterson, Edward J
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4200194/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25328539
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13037-014-0042-5