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111. Increasing Duration of Surgical Prophylaxis Increases Antimicrobial-Associated Adverse Events but Does Not Decrease Surgical Site Infections: An Opportunity for Stewardship

BACKGROUND: The benefits of surgical antimicrobial prophylaxis are limited to the first 24 hours postoperatively. However, little is known about the harms associated with prophylaxis lasting for greater than 24 hours. Thus, we sought to characterize the relationship between duration of prophylaxis a...

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Autores principales: Strymish, Judith M, Branch-Elliman, Westyn, O’Brien, William, Itani, Kamal, Gupta, Kalpana
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6252689/
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofy209.002