Infection after abdominal surgery: five year prospective study.
- 28 January 1984
- Vol. 288 (6413), 278-280
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.288.6413.278
Abstract
A total of 1504 consecutive abdominal operations were studied prospectively over a five year period. The incidence of wound (2.8%) and intraperitoneal (0.8%) infections was low compared with contemporary reports. It is difficult to justify modifying existing practice on the basis of small controlled clinical trials when information from accurate audit discloses results superior to those of experimental studies.This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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