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Surgical and Non-surgical Infections of Neurosurgical Patient: Before-after Cohort Study

NCT03759652 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 10332

Last updated 2018-12-03

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Continuous surveillance in 2003-2017 allowed to detect HAIs in patients staying in a 42-bed neurosurgery unit with 6 intensive neurosurgical supervision beds. 10,332 surgical patients were qualified for the study. The study was carried out in the framework of a national surveillance of HAI programme following methodology recommended by Healthcare-Associated Infections Surveillance Network (HAI-Net), European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. Intervention in this before-after study (2003-2017) comprised standardised surveillance of HAI with regular analysis and feedback.

Conditions

  • Neurosurgery

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

before-after study

The data analysed involve the time when the targeted, active surveillance of infections was establised, initially: 2003-2017, using tools (definitions, protocols) in accordance with the National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN), then from 2012, HAI recognition methodology and HAI record-keeping has followed the Surveillance Network (HAI-Net), European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC).

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Polskie Towarzystwo Zakażeń Szpitalnych

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Jadwiga Wójkowska-Mach · Jagiellonian University Medical School

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2003-01-31
Primary Completion
2017-12-31
Completion
2017-12-31

Countries

  • Poland

Study Locations

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