Post-operative site infections among surgical patients at Southern Ethiopia: A prospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The current study was conducted to estimate the magnitude of SSI among surgically treated patients and identify the predictors associated with it.

Background

summary: Despite the fact that surgical site infection (SSI) is still a global health care-associated infection related to patients' discomfort, morbidity, and mortality, it is the most preventable nosocomial infection if all necessary measures are taken into account.

Methods

An institution-based prospective cohort study was conducted at a large teaching hospital in southern Ethiopia. Patients admitted to the surgical ward with a non-traumatic acute abdomen were participants in the study and were followed prospectively for 30 days. The collected data was entered into Epi-Data 4 and exported to STATA 16

SUBMITTER: Abdu Seid M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10998209 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature