Victor Daniel Rosenthal, Ruijie Yin, Zhilin Jin, Safaa Abdulaziz Alkhawaja, Maria Adelia Zuñiga-Chavarria, Estuardo Salgado, Amani El-Kholy, Julio C Zuniga Moya, Priyanka Patil, Gita Nadimpalli, Rao Nadimpalli Pattabhiramarao, Dolatsinh Zala, Isabel Villegas-Mota, Bat-Erdene Ider, Nellie Tumu, Wieslawa Duszynska, Le Thi Thu Nguyet, Pravin K Nair, Ziad A Memish
BACKGROUND: Surgical site infection (SSI) rates are higher in low-resource countries (LRC) than in high-income counterparts. METHODS: Prospective cohort study using the INICC Surveillance Online System, from 116 hospitals in 75 cities across 25 Latin-American, Asian, Eastern-European, and Middle-Eastern countries: Argentina, Bahrain, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, Honduras, India, Kosovo, Kuwait, Lebanon, Mexico, Mongolia, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Poland, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, Turkey, Venezuela, Vietnam...
April 9, 2024: American Journal of Infection Control