A New Surgical-Site Infection Risk Index Using Risk Factors Identified by Multivariate Analysis for Patients Undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Surgery

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  2002

• Venue

  Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology

• Publication date

  2002-07-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine

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  DOI 10.1086/502068PMID 12138975
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