Surgical site infection following hip fracture surgery - the role of wound surveillance

Journal of Infection Prevention

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 44-47

  Thyagarajan, David ^a,b   Sunderamoorthy, Dakshinamurthy ^b   Haridas, Samarthjoy ^b   Beck, Sue ^b   Praveen, Pathmanaban ^b   Johansen, Anthony ^b  

^a Bristol Medical School   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF WALES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

infection control; Infection following hip fracture surgery; wound surveillance in hip fracture

Indexed keywords

EID: 78651100865     PISSN: 17571774     EISSN: 17571782     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1757177410375488     Document Type: Article

References (18)

1. Eastwood HDH. (1993) The social consequences of surgical complications for patients with proximal femoral fractures. Age Ageing 22: 360-4.
2. E dwards C., Counsell A., Boulton C., Moran CG (2008) Early infection after hip fracture surgery. Risk factors, cost and outcome. Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (Br)90-B: 770-7.
3. Garner JS, Jarvis WR, Emori TG, Horan TC, Hughes JM (1988) CDC definitions for nosocomial infections, 1988. American Journal of Infection Control 16(3): 128-40.
4. Haley RW, Culver DH, White JW, Morgan WM, Emori TG, Munn VP, Hooton TM (1985) The efficacy of infection surveillance and control programs in preventing nosocomial infections in US hospitals. American Journal of Epidemiology 121(2):182-205.
5. Hollingworth W., Todd CJ, Parker MJ (1995) The cost of treating hip fractures in the twenty first century. Journal of Public Health Medicine 17: 260-76.
6. Keating JF, Robinson CM, Court-Brown CM, McQueen MM, Christie J. (1993) The effect of complications after hip fracture on rehabilitation. Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (Br)75-B: 976.
7. Mackay DC, Harrison WJ, Bates JH, Dickenson D. (2000) Audit on deep wound infection following hip fracture surgery. Journal of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh 45: 56-9.
8. Mangram AJ, Horan TC, Pearson M., Silver LC, Jarvis WR (1999) Guidelines for prevention of surgical site infection 1999. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology 20(4): 247-76.
9. Morgan M., Salmon R., Keppie N., Evans-Williams D., Hosein I., Looker DN (1999) All Wales surveillance of methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) The first year results. Journal of Hospital Infection 41: 173-9.
10. Nice (2008) No authors listed. Falls: the assessment and prevention of falls in older people. Clinical Guideline 21. www.nice.org.uk/nicemedia/pdf/CG021 (accessed 1 April 2008).
11. Palmer SJ, Parker MJ, Hollingworth W. (2000) The cost and implications of reoperation after surgery for fracture of the hip. Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (Br)82-B: 864-66.
12. Partanen J., Syrjala H., Vahanikkila H., Jalovaara P. (2006) Impact of deep infection after hip fracture surgery on function and mortality. Journal of Hospital Infection 62: 44-9.
13. Platt R, Platt, Yokoe D., Sands K. and the CDC Eastern Massachusetts prevention epicentre investigators. (2001) Automated methods for surveillance of surgical site infections. Emerging Infectious Diseases 7(2): 212-16.
14. Pollard TC, Newman JE, Barlow NJ, Price JD, Willett KM (2006) Deep wound infection after proximal femoral fracture: consequences and costs. Journal of Hospital Infection 63: 133-9.
15. Roche JJ, Wenn RT, Sahota O., Moran CG (2005) Effect of comorbidities and postoperative complications on mortality after hip fracture in elderly people: prospective observational cohort study. BMJ 331: 1374.
16. Scottish Hip Fracture Audit (2008) No authors listed. http://www.shfa.scot.nhs.uk (accessed 1 April 2008).
17. Whitehouse D., Friedman ND, Kirkland KB, Richardson WJ, Sexton DJ (2002) The impact of surgical site infections following orthopaedic surgery at a community hospital and university hospital: adverse quality of life, excess length of stay and extra cost. Infection Control Hospital Epidemiology 23: 183-5.
18. Wood M. (1996) The comparative efficacy and safety of teicoplanin. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy 37: 209-22.