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The incidence and distribution of surgical site infection in mainland China: a meta-analysis of 84 prospective observational studies.
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- Surgical site infection and its associated factors in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC surgery · 2020Pooled it
- Incidence, temporal trend and factors associated with ventilator-associated pneumonia in mainland China: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC infectious diseases · 2017Pooled it
- Does ventilator-associated event surveillance detect ventilator-associated pneumonia in intensive care units? A systematic review and meta-analysis.Critical care (London, England) · 2016Pooled it
- [Incidence of surgical site infections in sub-Saharan Africa: systematic review and meta-analysis].The Pan African medical journal · 2016Pooled it
- Magnitude and Associated Factors of Surgical Site Infection Following Cesarean Section: A Cross-Sectional Study in Southern Ethiopia.Health science reports · 2026Article
- Engineering matrix-embedded dual-drug eluting biodegradable surgical sutures for prophylaxis against surgical site infections.RSC advances · 2026Article
- Global surgery is stronger when infection prevention and control is incorporated: a commentary and review of the surgical infection landscape.BMC surgery · 2024Review
- Prophylactic Antibiotics before Gynecologic Surgery: A Comprehensive Review of Guidelines.Journal of personalized medicine · 2024Review
- A novel web-based risk calculator for predicting surgical site infection in HIV-positive facture patients: a multicenter cohort study in China.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2024Article
- A clinical prediction model for predicting the surgical site infection after an open reduction and internal fixation procedure considering the NHSN/SIR risk model: a multicenter case-control study.Frontiers in surgery · 2023Article
- Preoperative Surgical Site Hair Removal for Elective Abdominal Surgery: Does It Have Impact on Surgical Site Infection.Surgery journal (New York, N.Y.) · 2022Article
- Prevalence of Surgical site Infection among Adult Patients at a Rural District Hospital in Southern Province, Rwanda.Rwanda journal of medicine and health sciences · 2022Article
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- Harnessing the Microbiome to Optimize Surgical Outcomes in the COVID-19 Era.Annals of surgery open : perspectives of surgical history, education, and clinical approaches · 2021Review
- Incidence, risk factors and outcomes of surgical site infections among patients admitted to Jimma Medical Center, South West Ethiopia: Prospective cohort study.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2021Article
- Wound Infection Incidence and Obesity in Elective Cesarean Sections in Jordan.Medical archives (Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina) · 2021Article
- Epidemiologic characteristics of orthopedic surgical site infections and under-reporting estimation of registries using capture-recapture analysis.BMC infectious diseases · 2021Article
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- Satisfaction and health-related quality of life of patients with microtia following reconstructive surgery using the Nagata technique.PloS one · 2021Article
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Abstract
Surgical site infection (SSI) is one of the most common surgical complications in the world, particularly in developing countries. This study aimed to estimate the incidence and distribution of SSI in mainland China. Eighty-four prospective observational studies (82 surveillance studies, 1 nested case control study, and 1 cohort study) were selected for inclusion in this meta-analysis. The average incidence of SSI in mainland China was 4.5% (95% CI: 3.1-5.8) from 2001 to 2012 and has decreased significantly in recent years. The remote western regions had a higher incidence of 4.6% (95% CI: 4.0-5.3). The most common surgical procedure was abdominal surgery (8.3%, 95% CI: 6.5-10.0). SSI occurred frequently in the elderly (5.1%, 95% CI: 2.2-8.0), patients confined to hospital for over 2 weeks (5.7%, 95% CI: 0.9-10.0), superficial incision wounds (5.6%, 95% CI: 4.4-6.8), dirty wounds (8.7%, 95% CI: 6.9-10.6), operations lasting for over 2 hours (7.3%, 95% CI: 4.9-9.7), general anaesthesia operations (4.7%, 95% CI: 2.7-6.6), emergency surgeries (5.9%, 95% CI: 4.2-7.7), and non-intra-medication operations (7.4%, 95% CI: 1.0-13.7).
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