St. Barbara Specialised Regional Hospital No. 5: Surveillance of Healthcare-Associated Infections

Completed

• Conditions: Surgical Site Infections
• Interventions: Other: laboratory-based data collection

• Registration Number: NCT03686553
• Lead Sponsor: Polskie Towarzystwo Zakażeń Szpitalnych

Brief Summary

Retrospective laboratory-based data collection study of surgical site infections: Surveillance of Healthcare-Associated Infections in Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery Unit in Sosnowiec, Poland;

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2013-01
• Primary Completion: 2015-12
• Study Completion: 2015-12
• Status Verified: 2018-09
• Study First Submitted: 2018-09-25
• Study First Submitted QC: 2018-09-25
• Last Update Submitted: 2018-09-26
• Study First Posted: 2018-09-27
• Last Update Posted: 2018-09-28

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 5239

Inclusion Criteria

• patient being treated in the Department and Clinic of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery, St. Barbara Specialised Regional Hospital No. 5, Sosnowiec
• patients undergoing surgery in studied unit

Exclusion Criteria

• under 18 years of age
• surgery of a different type than orthopedics
• non-surgical treatment

Study & Design

• Study Type: OBSERVATIONAL
• Study Design: Not specified

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
non-infected	laboratory-based data collection	patients without SSI
infected, with SSI	laboratory-based data collection	patients with SSI

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
surgical site infection incidence rate	The follow-up period was 30 days for the superficial SSI's, and 90 days for deep or organ/space infections following arthroplasties	the cumulative incidence of surgical site infection (SSI) was calculated by dividing the number of SSI cases by the number of patients undergoing surgery and multiplying by 100