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Surgical Site Infection (SSI) is the most common and costly complication among patients undergoing surgery, including neurosurgery. The aim of this study was to investigate the factors associated with surgical site infection in neurosurgery of Shahid Beheshti Hospital in Kashan.

In this case-control study, out of 1350 cases of neurosurgery in Shahid Beheshti Hospital of Kashan, 30 patients had surgical site infection and were selected as the case group. Also, 90 patients without infection were selected as the control group. The required information was extracted from patients' files and analyzed by SPSS software version 22.

Out of 1350 cases of neurosurgery in Shahid Beheshti Hospital in Kashan, 30 people (2.2%) had infection at the operation site. Surgical infection was not significantly associated with gender, smoking, history of diabetes and type of surgery (p> 0.05) but was significantly associated with age and radiotherapy/chemotherapy, and was higher in older patient and patient with a history of radiotherapy/chemotherapy.

The frequency of infection at the surgery site was 2.2% and among the mentioned risk factors, age and radiotherapy/chemotherapy were the effective factors in the incidence of infection.