A New Surgical Site Infection Risk Score: Infection Risk Index in Cardiac Surgery

A New Surgical Site Infection Risk Score: Infection Risk Index in Cardiac Surgery

Various scoring systems attempt to predict the risk of surgical site infection (SSI) after cardiac surgery, but their discrimination is limited. Our aim was to analyze all SSI risk factors in both coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) and valve replacement patients in order to create a new SSI risk sc...

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Main Authors: Juan Bustamante-Munguira, Francisco Herrera-Gómez, Miguel Ruiz-Álvarez, Ana Hernández-Aceituno, Angels Figuerola-Tejerina
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2019-04-01
Series:Journal of Clinical Medicine
Subjects:
surgical site infection
patient outcome
cardiac surgical procedures
scoring systems
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0383/8/4/480

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