Effectiveness of a Hospital-wide Programme for Infection Control to Reduce the Rate of Health-Care Associated Infections and related Sepsis
Not Applicable
- Conditions
- Health care associated infectionsT88.8Other specified complications of surgical and medical care, not elsewhere classified
- Registration Number
- DRKS00003166
- Lead Sponsor
- IFB Sepsis und Sepsisfolgen (CSCC)Klinik für Innere Medizin 2, Abteilung Gastroenterologie,Hepatologie und InfektiologieUniversitätsklinikum Jena
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Complete
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 75000
Inclusion Criteria
Hospital stay > 48 hours
Exclusion Criteria
none
Study & Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Incidence density of any type of HAIs. A hospital-wide computerized screening tool for HAIs was implemented at the JUH. This screening tool is based on the daily information whether an antimicrobial therapy was initiated or changed in a patient with a hospital stay >48h. If so and the patient has HAI - risk factors (vascular catheter, urinary tract catheter or operations), the ALERTS Study-Team visits the patient and evaluates whether an HAI is present.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Incidence of HAI-related sepsis