Semiautomated Surveillance of Deep Surgical Site Infections After Primary Total Hip or Knee Arthroplasty. (3rd April 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Sips, Meander E.; Bonten, Marc J. M.; van Mourik, Maaike S. M.
• Is Part Of: Infection control and hospital epidemiology. Volume 38:Number 6(2017)
• Page Start: 732
• Page End: 735
• Publication Date: 2017-04-03
• Subjects: Nosocomial infections -- Epidemiology -- Periodicals; Health facilities -- Sanitation -- Periodicals; Hospital buildings -- Sanitation -- Periodicals; Cross Infection -- Periodicals; Epidemiology -- Periodicals; Hospitals -- Periodicals; Infection Control -- Periodicals; 614.44
• DOI: 10.1017/ice.2017.37
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0899-823X

Abstract

Abstract : Manual surveillance of surgical site infections (SSIs) after total hip or knee arthroplasty is time-consuming and prone to error. Semiautomated surveillance based on routine care data extracted from electronic health records can retrospectively identify deep SSIs and substantially reduce workload while maintaining 100% sensitivity. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2017;38:732–735