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. 1992 Jun;40(3):148-51.
doi: 10.1055/s-2007-1020134.

Added hospital stay due to wound infections following cardiac surgery

I Kappstein  1 , G Schulgen, G Fraedrich, V Schlosser, M Schumacher, F D Daschner
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Added hospital stay due to wound infections following cardiac surgery

I Kappstein et al. Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 1992 Jun.

Abstract

To determine the prolongation of hospital stay due to postoperative wound infections following cardiac surgery, a prospective cohort study was performed by matching multiple control patients without infection to each infected patient (= case). Out of 22 cases, no patient died. No case had to be excluded from the matching process because of a lack of suitable control patients. The maximum number of controls per case was 10. The mean added stay was 12.2 days constituting a considerable prolongation of stay due to wound infection in cardiac surgery.

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