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Public Library of Science, PLoS ONE, 6(10), p. e0129178, 2015

DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0129178

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Which Kind of Provider’s Operation Volumes Matters? Associations between CABG Surgical Site Infection Risk and Hospital and Surgeon Operation Volumes among Medical Centers in Taiwan

Journal article published in 2015 by Tsung-Hsien Yu, Yu-Chi Tung ORCID, Kuo-Piao Chung
This paper is made freely available by the publisher.
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Abstract

Volume-infection relationships have been examined for high-risk surgical procedures, but the conclusions remain controversial. The inconsistency might be due to inaccurate identification of cases of infection and different methods of categorizing service volumes. This study takes coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgical site infections (SSIs) as an example to examine whether a relationship exists between operation volumes and SSIs, when different SSIs case identification, definitions and categorization methods of operation volumes were implemented.