Perioperative Urinary Catheter Use and Association to (Gram-Negative) Surgical Site Infection after Spine Surgery

• Main Authors: Alexandre Ansorge (Author), Michael Betz (Author), Oliver Wetzel (Author), Marco Dimitri Burkhard (Author), Igor Dichovski (Author), Mazda Farshad (Author), Ilker Uçkay (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: MDPI AG, 2023-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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This study evaluates potential associations between the perioperative urinary catheter (UC) carriage and (Gram-negative) surgical site infections (SSIs) after spine surgery. It is a retrospective, single-center, case-control study stratifying group comparisons, case-mix adjustments using multivariat...