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Saturday, February 05, 2011

abstract: Surgical-site infections and postoperative complications: agreement between the Danish Gynecological Cancer Database and a randomized clinical trial (patient safety)



Conclusions. The randomized trial reported significantly more surgical-site infections than the clinical database. The DGCD reported only 50% of the deep and organ-space infections, and hence, the low-overall agreement indicates a need for more careful database registration.