Surgical site infection after gastrointestinal surgery in children: an international, multicentre, prospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Surgical site infection (SSI) is one of the most common healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). However, there is a lack of data available about SSI in children worldwide, especially from low-income and middle-income countries. This study aimed to estimate the incidence of SSI in children and associations between SSI and morbidity across human development settings.

Methods

A multicentre, international, prospective, validated cohort study of children aged under 16 years undergoing clean-contaminated, contaminated or dirty gastrointestinal surgery. Any hospital in the world providing paediatric surgery was eligible to contribute data between January and July 2016. The primary outcome was the incidence of SSI by 30 days. Relationships between explanatory variables

SUBMITTER: GlobalSurg Collaborative 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7716674 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature