Predictors of surgical wound infection in Australia: a national study
- 1 December 1988
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AMPCo in The Medical Journal of Australia
- Vol. 149 (11-12) , 591-595
- https://doi.org/10.5694/j.1326-5377.1988.tb120796.x
Abstract
In July 1984, the first national Australian Nosocomial Prevalence Survey collected data on 12 742 surgical patients from 265 hospitals. This sample represented 59% of public and private hospitals wit...This publication has 12 references indexed in Scilit:
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