Does stratifying surgical site infection rates by the National Nosocomial Infection Surveillance risk index influence the rank order of the hospitals in a surveillance system?

Journal of Hospital Infection

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 295-300

  Brummer S ^a   Brandt, C ^b   Sohr, D ^a   Gastmeier, P ^a  

^a CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

Author keywords

Nosocomial infections; Stratified infection ratio; Surgical site infection; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; GERMANY; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; INFECTION RATE; INFECTION RISK; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NONHUMAN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURGICAL WARD;

CROSS INFECTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; GERMANY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 46049118006     PISSN: 01956701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhin.2008.05.011     Document Type: Article

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