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Incidence of sternal wound infections (SWI) in patients who received gauze surgical dressings before June 2017, and patients who received silver-impregnated surgical dressings after June 2017.
| Gauze dressings Group A, N = 464 |
Silver dressings Group B, N = 505 |
p valuea | |
|---|---|---|---|
| n (%) | |||
| Total SWI | 7 (1.5) | 5 (1) | 0.57 |
| Deep | 1 (0.4) | 1 (0.2) | 0.61 |
| Superficial | 6 (1.3) | 4 (0.8) | 0.74 |
p < 0.05, statistically significant
