Tag: surgical site infections

A mixed-methods study at a Rwandan tertiary hospital revealed that only sixteen percent of surgical prophylaxis cases met all appropriateness ...

A mixed-methods study at an Iranian university hospital found that only 9.2 percent of elective colorectal and urologic surgery patients ...

A systematic review of 11 international studies reveals that surgical instrument reprocessing failures during healthcare crises stem from interacting operational, ...

A semi-automated surveillance algorithm utilizing routine hospital billing data detected in-house surgical site infections with 94.7 percent sensitivity while cutting ...

A retrospective cohort study of 577 colon cancer surgeries found a 0.69 percent surgical site infection rate following standardized wound ...

A retrospective cohort study found preoperative Staphylococcus aureus screening was not independently associated with a significant reduction in surgical site ...

A prospective microbiological study in operating rooms reveals that surface bacterial colony counts do not correlate with Staphylococcus aureus transmission.

A multicenter randomized controlled trial found that a hydrogen peroxide solution with silver ions kept high-touch operating room surfaces free ...

In the extraordinary realm of neonatal care, the fragility of infants born at 22 to 24 weeks gestation challenges the ...