Infection control and hospital epidemiology : the official journal of the Society of Hospital Epidemiologists of America
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Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol · Jun 2004
Multicenter StudySurgical-site infection rates and risk factor analysis in coronary artery bypass graft surgery.
The Victorian Infection Control Surveillance Project (VICSP) is a multicenter collaborative surveillance project established by infection control practitioners. Five public hospitals contributed data for patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery. ⋯ We documented aggregate and comparative SSI rates among five Victorian public hospitals performing CABG surgery and defined specific independent risk factors for SSI. VICSP data offer opportunities for targeted interventions to reduce SSI following cardiac surgery.