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Research type:

Methodology 

Title (lead author) etc:

Identification of risk factors by systematic review and development of risk-adjusted models for surgical site infection  (Gibbons) 156 pages, Volume 15, number 30

DOI

10.3310/hta15300
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Headline:

Study found current research literature does not allow surgery-specific or generic risk factors to be defined for surgical site infection (SSI). SSI definitions varied between surveillance programmes and potentially between hospitals 

Special notes  

Commissioned under the Research Methodology Programme as Project RM02/JH03/BR.  

This report should be referenced as follows:

Gibbons C, Bruce J, Carpenter J, Wilson P, Wilson J, Pearson A, et al. Identification of risk factors by systematic review and development of risk-adjusted models for surgical site infection. Health Technol Assess 2011;15(30).

Project ref:

06/90/19 

Original project title:

Risk factors for surgical wound infection 

Chief Investigator:

Professor Barney Reeves, Professorial Res Fellow in Health Servces Research, Department of Clinical Science, University of Bristol

Start Date:

April 2003  

Date of publication in HTA journal series

September 2011

Cost:

£138,616 

Project Protocol:

Project protocol not available

Printed copies of this title despatched:

91 (Figures relate to the previous calendar month)

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