ArticlePerioperative care and operating room management2020
Sample sizes for surveillance of
Article in Perioperative care and operating room management, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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Who cites it
11 citing papers in PubMed, 17 citations in OpenAlex.
- Estimates and confidence intervals for mean postoperative health-care-associated infections per week among operating rooms and other anesthetizing locations.Canadian journal of anaesthesia = Journal canadien d'anesthesie · 2026Article
- Relationships in anesthesia work areas between contamination measured as colony-forming units,Anesthesiology and perioperative science · 2026Article
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- The importance of targeting intraoperative transmission of bacteria with antibiotic resistance and strain characteristics.American journal of infection control · 2023Article
- The efficacy of multifaceted versus single anesthesia work area infection control measures and the importance of surgical site infection follow-up duration.Journal of clinical anesthesia · 2023Observational
- Transmission of Staphylococcus aureus in the anaesthesia work area has greater risk of association with development of surgical site infection when resistant to the prophylactic antibiotic administered for surgery.The Journal of hospital infection · 2023Observational
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- An assessment of the impact of recommended anesthesia work area cleaning procedures on intraoperative SARS-CoV-2 contamination, a case-series analysis.Journal of clinical anesthesia · 2021Article
- Quantifying and interpreting inequality of surgical site infections among operating rooms.Canadian journal of anaesthesia = Journal canadien d'anesthesie · 2021Article
- Sample times for surveillance ofPerioperative care and operating room management · 2020Article
Corrections and comments
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Authors and funding
5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Reductions in perioperative surgical site infections are obtained by a multifaceted approach including patient decolonization, hand hygiene, and hub disinfection, and environmental cleaning. Associated surveillance of
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