The Newcastle-Ottawa Scale (NOS) for assessing the quality of nonrandomized studies.
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This article is published in PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases.The article was published on 2013-05-02 and is currently open access. It has received 1377 citations till now.read more
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Methodological quality and synthesis of case series and case reports.
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TL;DR: New guidelines for reducing health care associated infections related to surgery include 29 concrete recommendations distilled by 20 of the world’s leading experts from 26 reviews of the latest evidence to address the increasing burden of health careassociated infections on both patients and health care systems globally.