Population
496 surgical patients admitted in the surgery department in BSMMU for elective surgery
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
post operative period
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High SSI rates in elective surgery warrant enhanced surveillance; leaves open optimal pathogen-targeted prevention in similar cohorts.
Surgical site infections occurred in 20.16% of elective surgery patients, highlighting the need to correct modifiable risk factors such as anemia, malnutrition, and diabetes.
Nur-E-Elahi et al. (2014) studied this question.
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