Medicine

CDC/NHSN surveillance definition of health care-associated infection and criteria for specific types of infections in the acute care setting.

T. Horan, Mary L Andrus, Margaret A. Dudeck

2008.6.1AMERICAN JOURNAL OF INFECTION CONTROL

DOI: 10.1016/j.ajic.2008.03.002

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This chapter provides further required criteria for the specific event types that constitute organ/space SSIs (e.g. mediastinitis following coronary artery bypass graft, intra-abdominal abscess following colon surgery, etc.).

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HORAN, T.; ANDRUS, Mary L; DUDECK, Margaret A. CDC/NHSN surveillance definition of health care-associated infection and criteria for specific types of infections in the acute care setting. AMERICAN JOURNAL OF INFECTION CONTROL, 2008, 36 5: 309–32.