TY - BOOK AU - Yasmine Samir Abdelhamid Galal AU - Mervat Gaber Abdelwahab , AU - Mona Ibrahim Ellawindi , AU - Nargis Albert Labib , TI - Study of surgical site infection in general surgical departments at Cairo University Hospitals / PY - 2012/// CY - Cairo : PB - Yasmine Samir Abdelhamid Galal , KW - Prophylactic antibiotics KW - Surgical site infection KW - Wound class N1 - Thesis (Ph.D.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Community Medicine; Issued also as CD N2 - Surgical site infections are one of the most important types of healthcare - associated infections . Effective surveillance of SSIs and feed back of data on infection rates to hospital leadership and surgeons could significantly reduce SSI rates. To reduce the incidence of SSIs in General Surgical Department at Kasr Elaini Hospital through determining the incidence and risk factors of SSIs the epidemiological profile of infected cases and setting recommendations for minimizing the occurrence ER -