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Quality Improvement Project in Congenital Cardiothoracic Surgery Patients: Reducing Surgical Site Infections

BACKGROUND: Healthcare-associated infections are a major focus for quality improvement in hospitals today. Surgical site infections (SSIs), a postoperative complication in cardiac surgery, are associated with increased morbidity, mortality, hospital length of stay, and financial burden. METHODS: A r...

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Autores principales:	Hodge, Ashley B., Thornton, Brandis A., Gajarski, Robert, Hersey, Diane, Cannon, Melissa, Naguib, Aymen N., Joy, Brian F., McConnell, Patrick I.
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Wolters Kluwer Health 2019
Materias:	Individual QI Projects from Single Institutions
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6708651/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31572889 http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/pq9.0000000000000188

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