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Surgical site infections in a tertiary hospital over 10 years

The effect of hospital accreditation strategy implementation

Lateefah T. Alshammari, Sarah A. Alkatheer, Maymona B. AlShoaibi, Aqdas A. Alomran, Sharifah N. Almulhim, Reem Y. Aljindan, Yasser M. Aljehani and Khaled R. Alkharsah
Saudi Medical Journal September 2020, 41 (9) 971-976; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2020.9.25347
Lateefah T. Alshammari
From the Department of Microbiology (Alshammari, Alkatheer, AlShoaibi, Alomran, Almulhim, Aljindan, Alkharsah) and from the Department of Surgery (Aljehani), College of Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Sarah A. Alkatheer
From the Department of Microbiology (Alshammari, Alkatheer, AlShoaibi, Alomran, Almulhim, Aljindan, Alkharsah) and from the Department of Surgery (Aljehani), College of Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Maymona B. AlShoaibi
From the Department of Microbiology (Alshammari, Alkatheer, AlShoaibi, Alomran, Almulhim, Aljindan, Alkharsah) and from the Department of Surgery (Aljehani), College of Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Aqdas A. Alomran
From the Department of Microbiology (Alshammari, Alkatheer, AlShoaibi, Alomran, Almulhim, Aljindan, Alkharsah) and from the Department of Surgery (Aljehani), College of Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Sharifah N. Almulhim
From the Department of Microbiology (Alshammari, Alkatheer, AlShoaibi, Alomran, Almulhim, Aljindan, Alkharsah) and from the Department of Surgery (Aljehani), College of Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Reem Y. Aljindan
From the Department of Microbiology (Alshammari, Alkatheer, AlShoaibi, Alomran, Almulhim, Aljindan, Alkharsah) and from the Department of Surgery (Aljehani), College of Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Yasser M. Aljehani
From the Department of Microbiology (Alshammari, Alkatheer, AlShoaibi, Alomran, Almulhim, Aljindan, Alkharsah) and from the Department of Surgery (Aljehani), College of Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Khaled R. Alkharsah
From the Department of Microbiology (Alshammari, Alkatheer, AlShoaibi, Alomran, Almulhim, Aljindan, Alkharsah) and from the Department of Surgery (Aljehani), College of Medicine, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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    The rate of surgical site infections (SSIs) over the past 10 years reported as the number of SSIs/1000 operations per year. The bars show the number of SSIs reported in each month. Because the data were not completely available for the years 2008 and 2018, the rates of SSI for these years were estimated based on the average total number of operations every year for the years 2009-2017.

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    Change in the surgical site infections rate based on the type of wound over the study period.

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    Causative organisms isolated from surgical site infection cases over the study period.

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    General percentage of antimicrobial resistance patterns for the most commonly used antibiotics over the study period.

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Lateefah T. Alshammari, Sarah A. Alkatheer, Maymona B. AlShoaibi, Aqdas A. Alomran, Sharifah N. Almulhim, Reem Y. Aljindan, Yasser M. Aljehani, Khaled R. Alkharsah
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