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Using Surveillance Data to Direct Infection Control Efforts to Reduce Surgical-Site Infections Following Clean Abdominal Operations in Japan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Keita Morikane ,
Midori Nishioka ,
Hisami Tanimura ,
Hiroe Noguchi ,
Toshiro Konishi  and
Hiroyoshi Kobayashi
Keita Morikane*
Affiliation:
Department of Colorectal Surgery, University of Tokyo School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
Midori Nishioka
Affiliation:
National College of Nursing, Tokyo, Japan
Hisami Tanimura
Affiliation:
Kanto Medical Center NTT EC, Tokyo, Japan
Hiroe Noguchi
Affiliation:
Kanto Medical Center NTT EC, Tokyo, Japan
Toshiro Konishi
Affiliation:
Kanto Medical Center NTT EC, Tokyo, Japan
Hiroyoshi Kobayashi
Affiliation:
Kanto Medical Center NTT EC, Tokyo, Japan
*
Department of Colorectal Surgery, University of Tokyo School of Medicine, 7-3-1 Hongo Bunkyo-ku Tokyo 113-8655, Japan
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Abstract

We initiated surveillance for surgical-site infections (SSIs) in a Japanese hospital using Centers for Disease Control and Prevention definitions and the approach of the National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance (NNIS) System. Patients were observed following clean and clean-contaminated abdominal operations. SSI rates were higher than those of the NNIS System, but there was a trend toward decreased SSI rates in the latter half of the study period.

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Concise Communications
Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 23 , Issue 7 , July 2002 , pp. 404 - 406
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 2002

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