Practice of and associated factors regarding prevention of surgical site infection among nurses working in the surgical units of public hospitals in Addis Ababa city, Ethiopia: A cross-sectional study

• Ayelign Mengesha ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: Ayelignmengesha59@gmail.com

  Affiliation Department of Nursing, College of Health Sciences, Woldia University, Woldia, Amhara regional state, Ethiopia

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1505-9390

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• Nete Tewfik ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Nete Tewfik, Zeleke Argaw

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Nursing, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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• Zeleke Argaw ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Nete Tewfik, Zeleke Argaw

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

  Affiliation Department of Nursing, College of Health Sciences, Addis Ababa University, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

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• Biruk Beletew ,

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

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Nursing, College of Health Sciences, Woldia University, Woldia, Amhara regional state, Ethiopia

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• Mesfin Wudu

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

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Nursing, College of Health Sciences, Woldia University, Woldia, Amhara regional state, Ethiopia

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