Preoperative Drug Dispensing as Predictor of Surgical Site Infection

The system used by the National Nosocomial Infection Surveillance (NNIS) program to measure risk of surgical site infection uses a score of >3 on the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA)-physical status scale as a measure of underlying illness. The chronic disease score measures health sta...

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Published in:	Emerging Infectious Diseases
Main Authors:	Keith S. Kaye, Kenneth Sands, James G. Donahue, K. Arnold Chan, Paul Fishman, Richard Platt
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2001-02-01
Subjects:	United States
Online Access:	https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/7/1/70-0057_article