Clinical and economic burden of surgical site infections in inpatient care in Germany: A retrospective, cross-sectional analysis from 79 hospitals

• Christian Eckmann ,

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

  * E-mail: c.eckmann@khmue.de

  Affiliation Department of General, Visceral and Thoracic Surgery, Klinikum Hann. Muenden Academic Hospital of Goettingen University, Hann. Muenden, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4516-0441

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• Axel Kramer,

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

  Affiliation Institute of Hygiene and Environmental Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

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• Ojan Assadian,

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

  Affiliations Regional Hospital Wiener Neustadt, Wiener Neustadt, Austria, School of Human & Health Sciences, University of Huddersfield, Huddersfield, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0129-8761

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• Steffen Flessa,

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

  Affiliation Department of Health Care Management, Faculty of Law and Economics, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

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• Claudia Huebner,

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

  Affiliation Department of Health Care Management, Faculty of Law and Economics, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

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• Kristian Michnacs,

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition

  Affiliation Johnson & Johnson Medical GmbH, Norderstedt, Germany

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• Christian Muehlendyck,

  Roles Data curation, Funding acquisition

  Affiliation Johnson & Johnson Medical GmbH, Norderstedt, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5115-8957

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• Kim Mirjam Podolski,

  Roles Data curation

  Affiliation Johnson & Johnson Medical GmbH, Norderstedt, Germany

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• Michael Wilke,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Inspiring-health GmbH, Munich, Germany

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0294-1897

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• Wolfgang Heinlein,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology

  Affiliation Inspiring-health GmbH, Munich, Germany

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• David John Leaper

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

  Affiliation University of Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

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