Surgical Site Infections after Colon Surgery: What the SIR Doesn’t Tell You
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Toward the rational use of standardized infection ratios to benchmark surgical site infections.
BACKGROUND The National Healthcare Safety Network transitioned from surgical site infection (SSI) rates to the standardized infection ratio (SIR) calculated by statistical models that included perioperative factors (surgical approach and surgery duration). Rationally, however, only patient-related variables should be included in the SIR model. METHODS Logistic regression was performed to pred...
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دوره 4 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 2017