The Challenge of Postoperative Infections: Does the Surgeon Make a Difference?

THE EFFICACY OF INFECTION SURVEILLANCE AND CONTROL PROGRAMS IN PREVENTING NOSOCOMIAL INFECTIONS IN US HOSPITALS

1985 • 2,047 citations

The Timing of Prophylactic Administration of Antibiotics and the Risk of Surgical-Wound Infection

1992 • 1,762 citations

Surgical wound infection rates by wound class, operative procedure, and patient risk index

1991 • 1,593 citations

The Epidemiology of Wound Infection: A 10-Year Prospective Study of 62,939 Wounds

1980 • 1,433 citations

Hepatogastroenterology

2011 • 1,348 citations

A Five-Year Prospective Study of 23,649 Surgical Wounds

1973 • 1,019 citations

IDENTIFYING PATIENTS AT HIGH RISK OF SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION

1985 • 730 citations

Multiple-Antibiotic-Resistant Pathogenic Bacteria -- A Report on the Rockefeller University Workshop

1994 • 434 citations

Endotoxemia and Bacteremia During Hemorrhagic Shock The Link Between Trauma and Sepsis?

1988 • 391 citations

Hemorrhagic Shock Induces Bacterial Translocation from the Gut

1988 • 390 citations

Perioperative Antibiotic Prophylaxis for Herniorrhaphy and Breast Surgery

1990 • 375 citations

Role of pharmacokinetics in the outcome of infections

1988 • 354 citations

Risk of Infection after Penetrating Abdominal Trauma

1984 • 322 citations

STUDY ON THE EFFICACY OF NOSOCOMIAL INFECTION CONTROL (SENIC PROJECT): SUMMARY OF STUDY DESIGN

1980 • 298 citations

Continuous, 10-Year Wound Infection Surveillance

1990 • 271 citations

Risk factors for postoperative infection

1991 • 258 citations

Surgical Wound Infections

1984 • 258 citations

Postoperative Wound Infection

1977 • 246 citations

Effectiveness of a Surgical Wound Surveillance Program

1983 • 228 citations

Factors affecting the incidence of postoperative wound infection

1990 • 204 citations

The gut as source of sepsis after hemorrhagic shock

1988 • 180 citations

Enterococcal Superinfection and Colonization After Therapy with Moxalactam, a New Broad-Spectrum Antibiotic

1981 • 174 citations

Strategies to Prevent and Control the Emergence and Spread of Antimicrobial-Resistant Microorganisms in Hospitals. A challenge to hospital leadership

1996 • 169 citations

Update from the SENIC project

1985 • 148 citations

Wound Infection Surveillance

1981 • 147 citations

Cefoxitin versus Erythromycin, Neomycin, and Cefazolin in Colorectal Operations

1983 • 135 citations

The joint associations of multiple risk factors with the occurrence of nosocomial infection

1981 • 113 citations

Infections Due to Beta-Lactamase-producing, High-Level Gentamicin-resistant Enterococcus faecalis

1992 • 106 citations

Infections and Antibiotic Use among Patients at Boston City Hospital, February, 1967

1968 • 103 citations

What is infection?

1994 • 93 citations

Surgical wound infection occurrence in clean operations

1981 • 93 citations

Hospital-Acquired Infections and Antibiotic Usage in the Boston City Hospital — January, 1964

1964 • 92 citations

Surgical infections: Prevention and treatment—1965 to 1995

1996 • 88 citations

Antibiotic Prophylaxis in Acute Nonperforated Appendicitis

1989 • 73 citations

Nosocomial infections in surgical patients: Developing valid measures of intrinsic patient risk

1991 • 67 citations

Past, present, and future of antimicrobial agents

1995 • 62 citations

Enterococcal superinfection in patients treated with ciprofloxacin

1988 • 62 citations

Does Infection Control Control Infection?

1988 • 54 citations

Nosocomial Infection Surveillance in the United States: Historical Perspective

1987 • 54 citations

Antimicrobial Prophylaxis for Appendectomy and Colorectal Surgery

1991 • 52 citations

Single agent cephalosporin prophylaxis for penetrating abdominal trauma

1986 • 51 citations

Prophylactic and therapeutic role of antibiotics in wound care

1994 • 50 citations

Determinants of Wound Infection Incidence after Isolated Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery in Patients Randomized to Receive Prophylactic Cefuroxime or Cefazolin

1988 • 48 citations

Assessing Operative Site Infection in Surgical Patients

1987 • 46 citations

Antibiotic prophylaxis of 1,036 patients undergoing elective surgical procedures

1987 • 44 citations

The financial incentive for hospitals to prevent nosocomial infections under the prospective payment system. An empirical determination from a nationally representative sample

1987 • 38 citations

Manipulation of local and systemic host defence in the prevention of perioperative sepsis

1995 • 38 citations

Influence of surgeons' experience on postoperative sepsis

1988 • 35 citations

Infection control practices in intensive care units of 14 European countries

1996 • 32 citations

STUDIES IN ASEPTIC TECHNIC

1915 • 32 citations

A comparison between single and double dose intravenous timentin for the prophylaxis of wound infection in elective colorectal surgery

1991 • 29 citations

Imipenem prophylaxis in elective colorectal surgery

1993 • 22 citations

Surgeon-Specific Wound Infection Rates: A Potentially Dangerous and Misleading Strategy

1988 • 22 citations

Nosocomial infections in general surgery: Surveillance report from a German university clinic

1990 • 17 citations

Nosocomial Infections in Surgical Patients

1976 • 14 citations

Administration of heparin and antibiotic prophylaxis

1994 • 11 citations

Contributions of alimentary tract surgery to modern infection control

1987 • 9 citations

Competing risk factors associated with nosocomial infection in two university hospitals

1984 • 5 citations