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Surveillance for Surgical Site Infection (SSI) After Neurosurgery: Influence of the US or Brest (France) National Nosocomial Infection Surveillance Risk Index on SSI Rates

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Claire Lietard ,
Véronique Thébaud ,
Gérard Besson  and
Benoist Lejeune
Claire Lietard*
Affiliation:
Laboratoire Universitaire de Santé Publique–Epidémiologie, Faculté de Médecine et Sciences de la Santé, Brest, France
Véronique Thébaud
Affiliation:
Service ld'Hygiène Hospitalière, Santé Publique, Évaluation, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Brest, Brest, France
Gérard Besson
Affiliation:
Service de Neurochirurgie, Brest, France
Benoist Lejeune
Affiliation:
Laboratoire Universitaire de Santé Publique–Epidémiologie, Faculté de Médecine et Sciences de la Santé, Brest, France Service ld'Hygiène Hospitalière, Santé Publique, Évaluation, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Brest, Brest, France
*
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Brest, Faculté de Médecine et Sciences de la Santé, 22 avenue Camille Desmoulins, CS 93837, 29238 Brest Cedex 3, France (claire.lietard@univ-brest.fr)
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Abstract

A total of 5,628 neurosurgical patients were observed in France to assess the occurrence of surgical site infection (SSI). Their risk of SSI was defined by calculating both the US National Nosocomial Infection Surveillance and the Brest National Nosocomial Infection Surveillance risk indexes. This study compares SSI rates stratified according to either the US or Brest (France) National Nosocomial Infection Surveillance risk index. The SSI rates were correlated with National Nosocomial Infection Surveillance data involving only local operation durations.

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 29 , Issue 11 , November 2008 , pp. 1084 - 1087
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2008

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