Can hospital discharge diagnoses be used for surveillance of surgical-site infections?

Journal of Hospital Infection

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 239-241

  Moro, M L ^a   Morsillo, F ^a  

^a Reg Hlth Care Agy Emilia Romagna   (Italy)

Author keywords

Computerized medical record systems; Patient discharges; Surgical site infection; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL INFECTION; HUMAN; INFECTION COMPLICATION; ITALY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; REGISTER; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

DATABASES; FORMS AND RECORDS CONTROL; HEALTH SURVEYS; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; ITALY; MEDICAL RECORDS; PATIENT DISCHARGE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGISTRIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 1342328747     PISSN: 01956701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhin.2003.12.022     Document Type: Article

References (8)

1. Emory T.C. Culver D.H. Horan T.C. National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance System (NNIS): description of surveillance methods Am J Infect Control 19 1991 19-35
2. Hebden J. Use of ICD-9-CM coding as a case-finding method for sternal wound infections after CABG procedures Am J Infect Control 28 2000 202-203
3. Cadwallader H.L. Toohey M. Linton S. Dyson A. Riley T.V. A comparison of two methods for identifying surgical site infections following orthopaedic surgery J Hosp Infect 48 2001 261-266
4. Madsen K.M. Schonheyder H.C. Kristensen B. Nielsen G.L. Sorensen H.T. Can hospital discharge diagnosis be used for surveillance of bacteremia? A data quality study of a Danish hospital discharge registry Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 19 1998 175-180
5. Moro M.L. Morsillo F. Tangenti M. Ragni P. e il Gruppo ICI della Regione Emilia Romagna Infezioni ospedaliere in ambito chirurgico. Studio multicentrico nelle strutture sanitarie dell'Emilia Romagna 2002 Regione Emilia-Romagna-ASR-CDS. Collana Dossier Bologna
6. Garner J.S. Jarvis W.R. Emori T.G. Horan T.C. Hughes J.M. CDC definitions for nosocomial infections Am J Infect Control 16 1988 128-140
7. Horan T.C. Gayes R.P. Martone W.J. Jarvis W.R. Emori T.C. CDC definitions of nosocomial surgical site infections: a modification of CDC definitions of surgical infections Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 13 1992 606-608
8. Platt R. Yokoe D.S. Sands K.E. Automated methods for surveillance of surgical site infections Emerg Infect Dis 7 2001 212-216