MONGE V, VICENTE A, HITA A, BOTIA F, FERERES J, FERNANDEZ P; Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy.
Abstr Intersci Conf Antimicrob Agents Chemother Intersci Conf Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2000 Sep 17-20; 40: 406.
Ramon y Cajal Hosp., Madrid, Spain
The surgical wound infection is the most common nosocomial infection among surgical patients and the second most frecuently reported nosocomial infection in hospitalised patients. Objective: To provide comparative nosocomial infection rates by patient risk index to hospital participants and to compare with others international standars.METHODS: Prospective Nosocomial Surveillance System Programe in 48 Spanish public acute-care hospitals. The infection site definitions, the operative procedure categories, populations under surveillance and risk factors (Time of intervention -duration of operation-, wound class and ASA score), are the same as the NNIS System. At each hospital the nosocomial surveillance and control team practitioners was carried out the survey and the date are collected with standardized protocols from the clinical records in surgical units and information provided by the doctors and nurses in charge of the patients. A microcomputer software system was development for managing and analysing their data. Every quarterly , a central unit, collect the data to the hospital participants and report the data for comparisson.RESULTS: From January 1997 to September 1999, the 48 hospital participants reported 57.344 operations included in 43 operative procedure categories. The results of the most common and important of these operative procedure categories are [table: see text].CONCLUSIONS: The establishment of Infection Control Programs and operative procedure categories stratified by risk index is one of the possible options to compare surgical site infection rates in patients grouped by similar procedures in hospital differents.KEYWORDS: Infection; Risk factors; Surgical
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Keywords:
- Communicable Diseases
- Cross Infection
- Data Collection
- Hospitals
- Humans
- Infection Control
- Longitudinal Studies
- Risk Factors
- Surgical Wound Infection
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UI: 102248915
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