A prospective study was made of 23,649 surgical wounds. All wounds were examined by
one person for 28 days after operation. National Research Council definitions and …

Whether it be the plague or influenza, one thing we learn at the knee of our'alma mater'is
that diabetics are more likely to get it. Theorigins of this presump-tion are unclear. The …

The increased hospital stay and direct cost of hospitalization that resulted from a
postoperative wound infection (presence of pus at the incision site) after each of 6 common …

This paper describes a prospective study of all surgical wounds of patients at the Foothills
Hospital (Calgary, Alberta, Canada) during a period of 10 years to determine the rate of …

Surgical site infection (SSI) is a common type of health-care–associated infection (HAI) and
adds considerably to the individual, social, and economic costs of surgical treatment. This …

Wound complications following modified radical mastectomy: An analysis of perioperative
factors Page 1 Wound complications following modified radical mastectomy: An analysis of …

Wound infection surveillance is the information-gathering arm of a wound infection control
program. Wound infection control concerns prevention--not therapy--of an infrequent but …

To estimate the accuracy of routine hospital-wide surveillance for nosocomial infection, the
authors performed a validation study at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, a 900 …

Background. The “July phenomenon,” a common belief in medical academia, refers to
purported errors, inefficiency, and negative outcomes during the summertime transition of …

Manufacturing productivity studies done at the Western Electric plant in suburban Chicago
(Hawthorne) in the late 1920s and early 1930s found that environmental changes (improved …