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. 2023 Jun;44(6):968-970.
doi: 10.1017/ice.2022.154. Epub 2022 Jul 8.

Pediatric surgical site infections in 287 hospitals in the United States, 2015-2018

Roshni Mathew  1 , Jorge L Salinas  2 , Heather E Hsu  3 , Robert Jin  4 , Chanu Rhee  4   5 , Grace M Lee  1
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Pediatric surgical site infections in 287 hospitals in the United States, 2015-2018

Roshni Mathew et al. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2023 Jun.

Abstract

Among 287 US hospitals reporting data between 2015 and 2018, annual pediatric surgical site infection (SSI) rates ranged from 0% for gallbladder to 10.4% for colon surgeries. Colon, spinal fusion, and small-bowel SSI rates did not decrease with greater surgical volumes in contrast to appendix and ventricular-shunt SSI rates.

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