Purpose: To our knowledge risk factors for urinary tract infection associated with various
drainage methods in patients with spinal cord injury have never been evaluated overall in …

This study examined the association between social network and health-related quality of
life (HRQL) in older adults and compared this against the association between HRQL and a …

STUDY OBJECTIVE To examine the relation between alcohol and main alcoholic beverage
consumption and subjective health in Spain. DESIGN Logistic regression analysis using a …

The authors have studied patients with traumatic and non-traumatic spinal cord injury (SCI)
occurring in Spain during 1984 and 1985. They calculate the incidence, and consider the …

Two percent glutaraldehyde has been the reference disinfectant for high-level disinfection,
but its frequent association with adverse effects has stimulated a search for newer …

Background. The usual surgical antisepsis involves scrubbing the skin with antiseptic
solutions. This procedure can damage the skin, with the subsequent risk of infection for the …

The antibacterial activity of eight antiseptic creams: 1 per cent silver sulphadiazine; 0.2 per
cent nitrofurazone; 0.1, 0.5 and 1 per cent chlorhexidine; 2.2 per cent cerium nitrate; 10 per …

The widespread use of peri-surgical chemo-prophylaxis is decreasing the incidence of
surgical site infection in Traumatology, which nevertheless remains as a problem amenable …

This study was carried out in the critical care area of a burn unit. The mortality of burn
patients was studied over three periods: 1971–1983; 1984–1987; 1988–1991. The first …

The purpose of this study was to determine whether semiquantitative surface cultures of the
burn eschar are as reliable or useful as the classic invasive biopsy culture method. We used …