Improving Awareness of Best Practices to Reduce Surgical Site Infection

Previously published guidelines are available that provide comprehensive recommendations for detecting and preventing healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). The intent of this document is to highlight practical recommendations in a concise format designed to assist acute care hospitals in implementing and prioritizing their surgical site infection (SSI) prevention efforts. This document updates “Strategies to Prevent Surgical Site Infections in Acute Care Hospitals,” published in 2008. This expert guidance document is sponsored by the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) and is the product of a collaborative effort led by SHEA, the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), the American Hospital Association (AHA), the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC), and The Joint Commission, with major contributions from representatives of a number of organizations and societies with content expertise. The list of endorsing and supporting organizations is presented in the introduction to the 2014 updates.

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“…Educational materials should be provided in multiple languages on the basis of the population served. 131 ' 202 ' 203…”

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Strategies to Prevent Surgical Site Infections in Acute Care Hospitals: 2014 Update

Anderson

Podgorny

Berríos-Torres

et al. 2014

Infect. Control Hosp. Epidemiol.

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“…Provide education to executive leadership regarding the value of reducing SSIs, including patient and fiscal outcomes. 131 …”

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Strategies to Prevent Surgical Site Infections in Acute Care Hospitals: 2014 Update

Anderson

Podgorny

Berríos-Torres

et al. 2014

Infect. Control Hosp. Epidemiol.

823

447

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PURPOSE Previously published guidelines are available that provide comprehensive recommendations for detecting and preventing healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). The intent of this document is to highlight practical recommendations in a concise format designed to assist acute care hospitals in implementing and prioritizing their surgical site infection (SSI) prevention efforts. This document updates “Strategies to Prevent Surgical Site Infections in Acute Care Hospitals,”1 published in 2008. This expert guidance document is sponsored by the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) and is the product of a collaborative effort led by SHEA, the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), the American Hospital Association (AHA), the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC), and The Joint Commission, with major contributions from representatives of a number of organizations and societies with content expertise. The list of endorsing and supporting organizations is presented in the introduction to the 2014 updates.2

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“…This is broadly in line with the literature data. Skoufalos et al (2012) indicate that about half of the surgery related AE occur patients being at home.…”

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Adverse Events ‒ One of the Most Important Health Care Quality Indicators: A Case Study

Janušonis

2017

ESJ

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The aim of study: to evaluate inpatients, experienced adverse events (AE) in Klaipeda university hospital (KUH) contingent, healthcare profiles, location and causal factors, the degree of risk, possibility to avoide its, and to compare assessment of doctors and experts, and estimate their changes in different analyzed periods. Material and methods. The study carried out by analyzing the AE reporting forms in KUH at 2000-2014time period. Exploring and comparing 1690 patients, experienced AE data by age, gender, health care profile, the reasons. Results. The survey showed that AE was 0.3 % of hospitalized patients, most of them (54.9 %) -associated with surgery. The largest group of AE -repeated operations (44.8 %), related to childbirth AE (26.2 %) and related to infection -(13.1 %). Almost half (43.2 %) AE were medium risk, one-third (33.8 %) -minimal and one-fifth (21.6 %) -high risk. Doctors (nurses) and experts opinions on the major causative factors of AE -the individual characteristics of the patients (88.5 % and 90.3 %) basically was similar. However, due to the individual characteristics of doctors (nurses) -experts often (14.2 %) could see them as causal factor than doctors or nurses (9.8 %). Due possibility of AE avoidance -doctors (nurses) and experts opinion that almost half of them (44.7 % and 48.8 %) were avoidable was the same, but stood for full possibility of avoidance (11.2 % doctors (nurses) and 16.9 % experts) and complete inevitability (44.1 % doctor (nurses) and 34.3 % experts) of AE. Conclusions: Long-term operating adverse events reporting and registration system and analysis showed that adverse events in KUH is much less than in comparable large multiprofile hospitals of other countries. The structure of AE have advantages with structure in other countries -the most adverse events related to surgery, infections, nursing, but there are significant differences -reported little adverse events related to drugs, diagnostics, and a small number of falls compared with many births related AE. The majority -almost four fifths of the AE was minimal or medium risk, one-fifths -high-risk. The AE related European Scientific Journal April 2017 edition Vol.13, No.12 ISSN: 1857 -7881 (Print) e -ISSN 1857 289 with deaths were few. The main causal factors of AE -individual characteristics of the patients and the doctors, and team work failure. A twothirds of AE could be fully or partially prevented.

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Improving Awareness of Best Practices to Reduce Surgical Site Infection

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Strategies to Prevent Surgical Site Infections in Acute Care Hospitals: 2014 Update

Strategies to Prevent Surgical Site Infections in Acute Care Hospitals: 2014 Update

Strategies to Prevent Surgical Site Infections in Acute Care Hospitals: 2014 Update

Adverse Events ‒ One of the Most Important Health Care Quality Indicators: A Case Study

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