COMPARING EFFICACY OF THE ANTIBIOTICS CONSIDERING NEW AGENTS USED TO TREAT ACUTE BACTERIAL SKIN AND STRUCTURE INFECTIONS CAUSED BY MRSA: A NETWORK META-ANALYSIS

BACKGROUND Since the patient's skin is a major source of pathogens that cause surgical-site infection, optimization of preoperative skin antisepsis may decrease postoperative infections. We hypothesized that preoperative skin cleansing with chlorhexidine-alcohol is more protective against infection than is povidone-iodine. METHODS We randomly assigned adults undergoing clean-contaminated surg...