Surgical-site infection surveillance at a small-scale community hospital

Surveillance of surgical-site infection (SSI) is becoming more important given the current situation of increasing antibiotic resistance by microorganisms. It may be difficult to carry out SSI surveillance at small-scale community hospitals because of small staff numbers. We examined whether SSI sur...

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Published in:Journal of infection and chemotherapy : official journal of the Japan Society of Chemotherapy 2005-08, Vol.11 (4), p.204-206
Main Authors: Saito, Takashi, Aoki, Yoji, Ebara, Kazuo, Hirai, Shunichi, Kitamura, Yasuhiro, Kasaoka, Yosinobu, Mori, Yoshihiro, Iinuma, Yoshitsugu, Ichiyama, Satoshi, Kohi, Fumikazu
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Antibiotic Prophylaxis
Cross Infection - epidemiology
Enterobacteriaceae
Hospitals, Community
Humans
Incidence
Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Surgical Wound Infection - epidemiology
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Summary:Surveillance of surgical-site infection (SSI) is becoming more important given the current situation of increasing antibiotic resistance by microorganisms. It may be difficult to carry out SSI surveillance at small-scale community hospitals because of small staff numbers. We examined whether SSI surveillance could be carried out with a system we devised. Furthermore, we investigated the SSI rateat our small-scale community hospital (179 beds) in a Japanese city (populations, 330 000). Between June and December 2003, operations were performed on 210 patients. Procedures were identified as clean (n = 85),clean-contaminated (n = 108), contaminated (n = 14), or dirty-infected (n = 3). A 7-month prospective survey of SSI was conducted. SSIs were classified according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention criteria and identified using bedside surveillance and post-discharge follow-up. SSI developed following 16 procedures (7.6%). All patients who developed SSI had received antibiotic prophylaxis. Among the 16 patients with SSI, operations were clean (n = 1), clean-contaminated (n = 8), contaminated(n = 5), or dirty-infected (n = 2). Enterobacteriaceae were the most frequently isolated microorganisms, followed by Pseudomonas aeruginosa. SSI surveillance is just as important at small community hospitals as it is at larger hospitals, and SSI surveillance is relatively simple to institute at small-scale community hospitals with the selective use of investigation items.
ISSN:1341-321X
1437-7780
DOI:10.1007/s10156-005-0393-z