WHO Guidelines to prevent surgical site infections-Authors' reply

Affiliations

¹ Department of Surgery, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA; OASIS Global, Cincinnati, OH, USA.
² Institute of Hygiene and Environmental Medicine, Charité-University Medicine, Berlin, Germany.
³ Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA; Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
⁴ Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
⁵ Infection Prevention and Control Global Unit, Service Delivery and Safety, World Health Organization, Avenue Appia, 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland. Electronic address: allegranzib@who.int.

Comment

Joseph Solomkin et al. Lancet Infect Dis. 2017 Mar.

. 2017 Mar;17(3):262-264.

doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(17)30081-6. Epub 2017 Feb 23.

¹ Department of Surgery, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA; OASIS Global, Cincinnati, OH, USA.
² Institute of Hygiene and Environmental Medicine, Charité-University Medicine, Berlin, Germany.
³ Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA; Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
⁴ Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
⁵ Infection Prevention and Control Global Unit, Service Delivery and Safety, World Health Organization, Avenue Appia, 1211 Geneva 27, Switzerland. Electronic address: allegranzib@who.int.

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New WHO recommendations on intraoperative and postoperative measures for surgical site infection prevention: an evidence-based global perspective.
Allegranzi B, Zayed B, Bischoff P, Kubilay NZ, de Jonge S, de Vries F, Gomes SM, Gans S, Wallert ED, Wu X, Abbas M, Boermeester MA, Dellinger EP, Egger M, Gastmeier P, Guirao X, Ren J, Pittet D, Solomkin JS; WHO Guidelines Development Group. Allegranzi B, et al. Lancet Infect Dis. 2016 Dec;16(12):e288-e303. doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(16)30402-9. Epub 2016 Nov 2. Lancet Infect Dis. 2016. PMID: 27816414 Review.
WHO Guidelines to prevent surgical site infections.
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WHO Guidelines to prevent surgical site infections.
Meyhoff CS, Fonnes S, Wetterslev J, Jorgensen LN, Rasmussen LS. Meyhoff CS, et al. Lancet Infect Dis. 2017 Mar;17(3):261-262. doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(17)30079-8. Epub 2017 Feb 23. Lancet Infect Dis. 2017. PMID: 28244388 No abstract available.
WHO Guidelines to prevent surgical site infections.
Humphreys H. Humphreys H. Lancet Infect Dis. 2017 Mar;17(3):262. doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(17)30080-4. Epub 2017 Feb 23. Lancet Infect Dis. 2017. PMID: 28244390 No abstract available.