Study of the Incidence of Surgical Site Infections Developed by Patients Hospitalized in the Wards of a Large Teaching Hospital in Rome, Italy

Institute of Hospitalization and Scientific Care (IRCCS)

Status

Completed

Conditions

Surgical Site Infection

Treatments

Procedure: surgery

Study type

Observational

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT05788575

1956

Details and patient eligibility

About

The surgical departments of the hospital were included in the study on a rotational basis over a period of 5 months. All patients undergoing surgery during this period were enrolled in the study.

The data collection in each department lasted 6 months (8 in the case of the use of prostheses) of which:

5 months of continuous survey of hospitalized patients
30 days of post-operative surveillance for all operations, 90 days for operations involving the use of prosthetic material Surveillance ends when a surgical site infection occurs, even if the event is prior to 30 or 90 days.

For each surgery, information was recorded such as the type of surgery, duration, ASA score, prophylaxis.

Enrollment

5,424 patients

Sex

All

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria