Incidence of healthcare-associated infections in a tertiary hospital in Beijing, China: results from a real-time surveillance system.

ABSTRACT:

Background

To quantify the five year incidence trend of all healthcare-associated infections (HAI) using a real-time HAI electronic surveillance system in a tertiary hospital in Beijing, China.

Methods

The real-time surveillance system scans the hospital's electronic databases related to HAI (e.g. microbiological reports and antibiotics administration) to identify HAI cases. We conducted retrospective secondary analyses of the data exported from the surveillance system for inpatients with all types of HAIs from January 1st 2013 to December 31st 2017. Incidence of HAI is defined as the number of HAIs per 1000 patient-days. We modeled the incidence data using negative binomial regression.

Results

In total, 23361 HAI cases were identified from 633990 patients, spanning 6

SUBMITTER: Zhang Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6712817 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature