title: Incidence of wound infection for common general surgical procedures.
abstract: Postoperative wound infection remains a ubiquitous problem with serious consequences, especially with regard to prolonged convalescence and in a source of physical and financial burden to the patient. Wound infection occurred in 13 of 1,346 of the patients during a single recent 12 month period with commonly performed surgical procedures at a large midwestern hospital. The bacteriologic findings of these infections was diverse.
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D008910:Minnesota; D011292:Premedication; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012306:Risk; D013530:Surgical Wound Infection / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000382:microbiology; D013537:Sutures