[Variability of management for patients hospitalized with 2009 A/H1N1 influenza in three Israeli hospitals].

Objectives: To assess uniformity of criteria for hospitalization and management of inpatients with documented 2009 A/H1N1 influenza, at a time when national guidelines for management were issued by the public health authorities.

Methods: This was a prospective observational cohort study. We included all adults with laboratory-confirmed pandemic 2009 A/H1N1 influenza in three hospitals in central Israel admitted between 22/7/2009 and 15/2/2010.

Duration of antibiotic prophylaxis for cardiac surgery: prospective observational study.

Objectives: To assess the effect of prolonging antibiotic prophylaxis in cardiac surgery.

Methods: Prospective before-after cohort study. In 2004, cefazolin was given pre- and intraoperatively at 1g doses while in 2007 it was continued after surgery for 24h.

Sternal wound infection after coronary artery bypass graft surgery: validation of existing risk scores.

Objective: Prediction of surgical site infection and mortality after cardiac surgery might allow for interventions to reduce adverse outcomes. We sought to evaluate existing risk scores.

Methods: We included 809 consecutive patients undergoing coronary artery bypass surgery.