The Global Prevalence of Infections in Urology Study (GPIU)

European Association of Urology Research Foundation

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Urinary Tract Infections; Hospital Infection

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03665467

GPIU

Details and patient eligibility

About

Urology departments from all over the world are invited to join the Global Prevalence Study on Infections in Urology (GPIU-study) and the GPIU Prostate Biopsy Side Study. The GPIU study is taking part annually in November since 2003. European urologists were the first group of specialist to register hospital acquired infections on an international level. More than 20.000 patients have been screened and more than 2000 patients are currently listed in this database.

Why? Infectious complications after urological procedures, such as prostate biopsy and increasing antimicrobial resistance are posing significant threats to modern urology The GPIU-study is a combined quality improvement initiative and a scientific study. Once the participating departments have filled in the report forms they will get access to statistics showing the accumulated results for all participating hospitals. The participants can anonymously compare their own results with hospitals from all over the World. The GPIU-study application has been designed as an instrument to ongoing follow-up of the development of important factors related to infection on international, national and local levels.

Take responsibility for the future of urology - join the GPIU-studies! http://gpiu.esiu.org

Prof. Dr. Florian M.E. Wagenlehner, MD, PhD Clinic for Urology, Pediatric Urology and Andrology University Clinic Giessen, Germany GPIU study coordinator

Prof. Truls E. Bjerklund Johansen, MD, PhD Urology Department, Oslo University Hospital, Chairman ESIU Oslo, NO GPIU Study coordinator

Zafer Tandogdu University College London (UCL), UK

Dominic Althaus Software engineer Giessen, Ger

Enrollment: 2,000 estimated patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

• On the chosen single study day at 08:00 AM local time all patients present on the ward of the participating institution are included
• The presence of urinary tract infections (UTI) according to the CDC definitions during their entire hospital stay are documented and audited and the patients are categorized as having or not having a UTI and/or
• The presence of surgical site infection (SSI) according to the CDC definitions during their entire hospital stay are documented and audited and the patients are categorized as having or not having a SSI