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The Relation between Preoperative Stay in Hospital and Postoperative Infection
Author(s) -
McEwin Roderick
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1445-2197
pISSN - 0004-8682
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1970.tb04057.x
Subject(s) - medicine , colonization , surgery , emergency medicine , microbiology and biotechnology , biology
This investigation demonstrates that postoperative infection increases with the period of time over which the patient has been in hospital before operation, presumably exposed to skin colonization by “hospital” bacteria .