Adhering to a national surgical care bundle reduces the risk of surgical site infections

Mayke B. G. Koek; Titia E. M. Hopmans; Loes C. Soetens; Jan C. Wille; Suzanne E. Geerlings; Margreet C. Vos; Birgit H. B. van Benthem; Sabine C. de Greeff

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0184200

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Adhering to a national surgical care bundle reduces the risk of surgical site infections

Mayke B. G. Koek ,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: mayke.koek@rivm.nl

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Surveillance, Centre for Infectious Disease Control (CIb), National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, the Netherlands

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1836-3654

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Titia E. M. Hopmans,

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Surveillance, Centre for Infectious Disease Control (CIb), National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, the Netherlands
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Loes C. Soetens,

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Epidemiology and Surveillance, Centre for Infectious Disease Control (CIb), National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, the Netherlands, Department of Medical Statistics, Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, the Netherlands
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Jan C. Wille,

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Surveillance, Centre for Infectious Disease Control (CIb), National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, the Netherlands
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Suzanne E. Geerlings,

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Infectious Diseases, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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Margreet C. Vos,

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Erasmus MC, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
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Birgit H. B. van Benthem,

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Surveillance, Centre for Infectious Disease Control (CIb), National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, the Netherlands
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Sabine C. de Greeff

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Epidemiology and Surveillance, Centre for Infectious Disease Control (CIb), National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), Bilthoven, the Netherlands
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Adhering to a national surgical care bundle reduces the risk of surgical site infections

Mayke B. G. Koek,
Titia E. M. Hopmans,
Loes C. Soetens,
Jan C. Wille,
Suzanne E. Geerlings,
Margreet C. Vos,
Birgit H. B. van Benthem,
Sabine C. de Greeff

Published: September 6, 2017
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0184200

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