CDC Definitions of Nosocomial Surgical Site Infections, 1992: A Modification of CDC Definitions of Surgical Wound Infections

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• Publication year

  1992

• Venue

  Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology

• Publication date

  1992-10-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine

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  DOI 10.2307/30148464PMID 1334988
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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• The Society for Hospital Epidemiology of America

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• CDC definitions for nosocomial infections.

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