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Is Targeted Surveillance Effective for Surgical Site-Infection Control? Results in Digestive Tract Surgery from the Incidence des Infections du Site Opératoire Network

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Marion Olivier
Affiliation:
Regional Center for Nosocomial Infection Control, Paris
Bruno Grandbastien
Affiliation:
Regional Center for Nosocomial Infection Control, Paris Regional Reference University Hospital, Lille, France
Pascal Astagneau*
Affiliation:
Regional Center for Nosocomial Infection Control, Paris Department of Public Health, Pierre Marie Curie University, Paris
*
CCLIN Paris Nord, Institut Biomédical des Cordeliers, 15-21 rue de l'école de medicine, 75006 Paris, France (p.astagne@bhdc.jussieu.fr)

Abstract

We used 6 years of surgical site infection (SSI) data collected by a surveillance system in northern France to compare targeted and pooled surveillance models. Digestive tract surgery wards were ranked according to SSI risk for herniorraphy, appendectomy, and cholecystectomy. The pooled and targeted models were correlated, despite differences in the number of outlier wards detected, indicating that the ranking of wards according to whether they have met a specified benchmark SSI rate depends on the strategy chosen.

Type
Concise Communications
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2007

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