Surgical site infections in colon surgery: the patient, the procedure, the hospital, and the surgeon.

Martin Hübner; Michele Diana; Giorgio Zanetti; Marie-Christine Eisenring; Nicolas Demartines; Nicolas Troillet

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Surgical site infections in colon surgery: the patient, the procedure, the hospital, and the surgeon.

July 27, 2011

Hübner M, Diana M, Zanetti G, et al. Arch Surg. 2011;146(11):1240-5.

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Surgical site infection rates varied widely among individual surgeons in this Swiss study. The infection rates among the worst-performing surgeons could not be explained by patient or procedural factors, or adherence to infection control guidelines.

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