Basics of Surgical-Site Infection Surveillance
- 1 September 1997
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology
- Vol. 18 (9), 659-668
- https://doi.org/10.1086/647694
Abstract
Surgical-site infections, the third most common class of nosocomial infections, cause substantial morbidity and mortality and increase hospital costs. Surveilla...Keywords
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