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Statewide collaboration to evaluate the effects of blood loss and transfusion on surgical site infection after hysterectomy.

Young H, Berumen C, Knepper B, Miller A, Silverman M, Gilmartin H, Wodrich E, Alexander S, Price CS. Statewide collaboration to evaluate the effects of blood loss and transfusion on surgical site infection after hysterectomy. Infection control and hospital epidemiology. 2012 Jan 1; 33(1):90-3.

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Abstract:

We used mandatory public reporting as an impetus to perform a statewide study to define risk factors for surgical site infection. Among women who underwent abdominal hysterectomy, blood transfusion was a significant risk factor for surgical site infection in patients who experienced blood loss of less than 500 mL.




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