OBJECTIVE To obtain information on surgical site infection (SSI) and the regimens used for surgical prophylaxis. METHODS The study was carried out at Manipal Teaching Hospital, Pokhara, Nepal from 1st January to 30th June 2004. Inpatients and outpatients undergoing surgical procedures in General Surgery department were included. Data was collected on a specially designed proforma. Demographic...

OBJECTIVE Surgical site infection (SSI) is a common complication after surgery and is an indicator of quality of care. Risk factors for SSI are studied thoroughly for most types of gastrointestinal surgeries and especially colorectal surgeries, but accumulated data is still lacking for gastric surgeries. We studied the parameters affecting SSI rate after gastric cancer surgery. MATERIAL AND M...

OBJECTIVE Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and methicillin-resistant coagulase negative staphylococci (MRCNS) are major causes of neurosurgical infection. Nasal colonization of MRSA is the most important risk factor and MRSA screening can be a screening method to identify MRSA and MRCNS colonization. We retrospectively evaluated prophylactic effect of vancomycin on MRSA or MRC...

This paper studies pre-eligibility-age labor market disincentives created by the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program. Asset and income limits might induce individuals nearing the eligibility age to work less. We exploit states’ supplementation of federal SSI benefits to estimate the effects of SSI on pre-retirement labor supply, using SIPP data. We find some evidence that generous SSI be...

BACKGROUND/AIM Active surveillance is an important component of surgical site infection (SSI) reduction strategy. The aim of this study was to analyze and compare SSI surveillance data in orthopedic patients in the Military Medical Academy (MMA), Belgrade. METHODS A 4-year prospective cohort study was performed to identify the incidence rate and risk factors for SSI in orthopedic patients in ...

Four starch synthase I (SSI)-deficient rice (Oryza sativa) mutant lines were generated using retrotransposon Tos17 insertion. The mutants exhibited different levels of SSI activities and produced significantly lower amounts of SSI protein ranging from 0% to 20% of the wild type. The mutant endosperm amylopectin showed a decrease in chains with degree of polymerization (DP) 8 to 12 and an increa...

Previously, we isolated a candidate for an endogenous target enzyme(s) of the Streptomyces subtilisin inhibitor (SSI), termed SAM-P20, from a non-SSI-producing mutant strain (S. Taguchi, A. Odaka, Y. Watanabe, and H. Momose, Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 61:180-186, 1995). In this study, in order to investigate the detailed enzymatic properties of this protease, an overproduction system of recombin...

BACKGROUND Surgical site infections (SSIs) are complications of surgery that cause significant postoperative morbidity. SSI has been proposed as a potential indicator of the quality of care in the context of clinical governance and monitoring of the performance of NHS organisations against targets. OBJECTIVES We aimed to address a number of objectives. Firstly, identify risk factors for SSI, ...

HYPOTHESIS Clinically apparent surgical glove perforation increases the risk of surgical site infection (SSI). DESIGN Prospective observational cohort study. SETTING University Hospital Basel, with an average of 28,000 surgical interventions per year. PARTICIPANTS Consecutive series of 4147 surgical procedures performed in the Visceral Surgery, Vascular Surgery, and Traumatology divisions...

BACKGROUND Surgical site infections (SSI) are an important cause of peri-surgical morbidity with risks that vary extensively between patients and surgeries. Quantifying SSI risk would help identify candidates most likely to benefit from interventions to decrease the risk of SSI. METHODS We randomly divided all surgeries recorded in the National Surgical Quality Improvement Program from 2010 i...