Colorectal Surgical Site Infection

Completed

• Conditions: Surgical Site Infection

• Registration Number: NCT05355376
• Lead Sponsor: Centro Hospitalar Universitário Lisboa Norte

Brief Summary

Surgical site infection (SSI) is one of the most common postoperative complications in surgery, with high morbidity. In the tertiary-center that the investigators evaluated they had a significant rate of surgical site infection. Because of that the investigators created a care bundle of measures in order to improve the outcomes.

Detailed Description

Prospectively the investigators implemented a care bundle of measures with retrospective analysis, to decrease SSI . The superficial, deep and organ/space infections were evaluated and compared before and after care bundle implementation.

Between january 1, 2016 and December 31, 2020, 1139 patient records relating to surgical incisions were submitted for analysis.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2016-01-01
• Primary Completion: 2020-12-31
• Study Completion: 2021-07-31
• Status Verified: 2022-04
• Study First Submitted: 2022-04-11
• Study First Submitted QC: 2022-04-26
• Last Update Submitted: 2022-04-29
• Study First Posted: 2022-05-02
• Last Update Posted: 2022-05-05

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 1139

Inclusion Criteria

• Patients submitted to elective colorectal surgery between 2016, january 1 and 2020, december 31
• Age > 18 years
• At least 30 days of follow-up

Exclusion Criteria

• Patients submitted to urgent colorectal surgery

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
The rate of surgical site infections	5 years	Evaluate the variation of surgical site infections during a period of 5 years