Financial and other impacts associated with provision of surgical antibiotic prophylaxis, per 100 operations.

<p>Exchange rate of Ksh85 =  US$1 used.</p>†<p>based on documented prescriptions and number of doses administered in these time-periods.</p>*<p> = based on an assumption of 10 mins nursing time/dose of iv antibiotics.</p

Weekly prescribing practices for surgical antibiotic prophylaxis.

<p>Weekly prescribing practices for surgical antibiotic prophylaxis.</p

Surgical patients in SSI surveillance between August 2010 and November 2011.

*<p>Medical Officer = junior doctor; Medical Officer Intern = junior doctor in first year after qualification; Registered Clinical Officer = vocationally-trained medical professional.</p

Overall risk of SSI with and without use of pre-operative antibiotic prophylaxis.

<p>a = p-value from χ²-test with 1 degree of freedom.</p><p>b = no RR calculated for all SSI combined as these represent diverse forms of infection.</p

Monthly risk of SSI in Thika Hospital, 2010–11.

<p>Monthly risk of SSI in Thika Hospital, 2010–11.</p