A New Surgical Site Infection Risk Score: Infection Risk Index in Cardiac Surgery.

ABSTRACT: Various scoring systems attempt to predict the risk of surgical site infection (SSI) after cardiac surgery, but their discrimination is limited. Our aim was to analyze all SSI risk factors in both coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) and valve replacement patients in order to create a new SSI risk score for such individuals. A priori prospective collected data on patients that underwent cardiac surgery (n = 2020) were analyzed following recommendations from the Reporting of studies Conducted using Observational Routinely collected health Data (RECORD) group. Study participants were divided into two periods: the training sample for defining the new tool (2010–2014, n = 1298), and the test sample for its validation (2015–2017, n = 722). In logistic regression, two preoperative variables were

SUBMITTER: Bustamante-Munguira J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6517895 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature