The Role of Bundle Size for Preventing Surgical Site Infections after Colorectal Surgery: Is More Better?

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¹ Centre of Public Health and Healthcare, Medical Psychology Unit, Hannover Medical School, OE 5430, Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1, 30625, Hannover, Germany.
² Department of Diagnostics, Institute of Hygiene, Hospital Epidemiology and Environmental Medicine, Leipzig University Hospital, Leipzig, Germany.
³ Centre of Public Health and Healthcare, Institute of Epidemiology, Social Medicine and Health Systems Research, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.
⁴ Centre of Public Health and Healthcare, Medical Psychology Unit, Hannover Medical School, OE 5430, Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1, 30625, Hannover, Germany. lengerke.thomas@mh-hannover.de.

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Ivonne Tomsic et al. J Gastrointest Surg. 2018 Apr.

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doi: 10.1007/s11605-018-3670-8. Epub 2018 Jan 24.

¹ Centre of Public Health and Healthcare, Medical Psychology Unit, Hannover Medical School, OE 5430, Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1, 30625, Hannover, Germany.
² Department of Diagnostics, Institute of Hygiene, Hospital Epidemiology and Environmental Medicine, Leipzig University Hospital, Leipzig, Germany.
³ Centre of Public Health and Healthcare, Institute of Epidemiology, Social Medicine and Health Systems Research, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.
⁴ Centre of Public Health and Healthcare, Medical Psychology Unit, Hannover Medical School, OE 5430, Carl-Neuberg-Str. 1, 30625, Hannover, Germany. lengerke.thomas@mh-hannover.de.

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Lau CSM, Zywot A. Lau CSM, et al. J Gastrointest Surg. 2018 Mar;22(3):560. doi: 10.1007/s11605-018-3673-5. Epub 2018 Jan 17. J Gastrointest Surg. 2018. PMID: 29344844 No abstract available.

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Zywot A, Lau CSM, Stephen Fletcher H, Paul S. Zywot A, et al. J Gastrointest Surg. 2017 Nov;21(11):1915-1930. doi: 10.1007/s11605-017-3465-3. Epub 2017 Jun 15. J Gastrointest Surg. 2017. PMID: 28620749