Surgical site infection in patients submitted to digestive surgery: Risk prediction and the NNIS risk index
- 1 May 2006
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier in American Journal of Infection Control
- Vol. 34 (4) , 201-207
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2005.12.011
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