Antibiotic Prophylaxis for Breast Oncosurgery in a Setting With a High Prevalence of Multidrug-Resistant Bacteria: Common Sense Infection Control Measures Are More Important Than Prolonged Antibiotics

MeSH terms

• Amoxicillin-Potassium Clavulanate Combination / therapeutic use*
• Anti-Bacterial Agents / therapeutic use
• Antibiotic Prophylaxis / methods*
• Breast Neoplasms / epidemiology
• Breast Neoplasms / surgery*
• Female
• Humans
• India / epidemiology
• Infection Control* / methods
• Infection Control* / statistics & numerical data
• Mastectomy / adverse effects*
• Mastectomy / methods
• Middle Aged
• Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care
• Practice Patterns, Physicians' / standards
• Preoperative Care / methods
• Retrospective Studies
• Surgical Wound Infection* / epidemiology
• Surgical Wound Infection* / microbiology
• Surgical Wound Infection* / prevention & control