Open AccessAssociation of Postoperative Infection With Risk of Long-term Infection and Mortality
Author(s) -
William J. O’Brien,
Kalpana Gupta,
Kamal M.F. Itani
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
jama surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.757
H-Index - 176
eISSN - 2168-6262
pISSN - 2168-6254
DOI - 10.1001/jamasurg.2019.4539
Subject(s) - medicine , incidence (geometry) , retrospective cohort study , hazard ratio , pneumonia , proportional hazards model , population , surgery , cohort study , cohort , confidence interval , physics , environmental health , optics
Surgical site infection has been shown to decrease survival in veterans by up to 42%. The association of 30-day postoperative infections with long-term infections in the overall surgical population remains unknown.
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