Infection control and hospital epidemiology : the official journal of the Society of Hospital Epidemiologists of America
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Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol · Feb 2019
Multicenter Study Observational StudyInfections after pediatric ambulatory surgery: Incidence and risk factors.
To describe the epidemiology of surgical site infections (SSIs) after pediatric ambulatory surgery. ⋯ The rate of NHSN-defined SSI after pediatric ambulatory surgery was low, although a substantial additional burden of infectious morbidity related to surgery might not have been captured by standard surveillance strategies and definitions.