Surgical Site Infections Incidence, their Predictors and Causative Organisms in a Teaching Hospital

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International Journal of Community & Family Medicine Volume 1 (2016), Article ID 1:IJCFM-104, 6 pages
https://doi.org/10.15344/2456-3498/2016/104

Research Article

Surgical Site Infections Incidence, their Predictors and Causative Organisms in a Teaching Hospital

Ali Ahmad Awad Rawabdeh^1*, Abdul Rahman Saleh Al Mulhim² and Zahid Ullah Khan³

¹Family and Community Medicine Department, College of Medicine, King Faisal University, Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia
²Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, King Faisal University, Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia
³Peterborough & Stamford Hospitals NHS Trust, Peterborough, PE3 9GZ, United Kingdom

Corresponding Author Details: Dr. Ali Ahmad Awad Rawabdeh, Family and Community Medicine Department, College of Medicine, King Faisal University, Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia; E-mail: aalrawabdeh@kfu.edu.sa

Received: 03 November 2015; Accepted: 18 April 2016; Published: 20 April 2016

Citation: Rawabdeh AAA, Al Mulhim ARS, Khan ZU (2016) Surgical Site Infections Incidence, their Predictors and Causative Organisms in a Teaching Hospital. Int J Community Fam Med 1: 104. doi: https://doi.org/10.15344/2456-3498/2016/104

Copyright: © 2016 Rawabdeh et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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