title: Incidence of surgical site infections in pediatric patients: a 3-month prospective study in an academic pediatric surgical unit.
abstract: During a 3-month period 259 pediatric surgical procedures in 236 patients were followed for the development of surgical site infections (SSI): 17 sites became infected, an overall infection rate of 6.6%. The incidence in our study was therefore higher than expected. As expected, the infection rate increased according to wound contamination: dirty sites had a SSI rate of 30%. Emergency procedures, operation duration over 1 h, and inpatients showed a statistically significant higher risk of developing SSI. Although there were differences between males and females, individual surgeons, and the use of antibiotic prophylaxis, these differences were not statistically significant.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatric Surgery, University Hospital St Radboud, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: O
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Uludag
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Rieu
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Niessen
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Voss
mesh_terms: D000556:Ambulatory Surgical Procedures / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D019072:Antibiotic Prophylaxis / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D002648:Child; D017558:Elective Surgical Procedures / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D004630:Emergencies; D005260:Female; D006785:Hospitals, University; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D017053:Infection Control; D007297:Inpatients / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D008297:Male; D009426:Netherlands / Q000453:epidemiology; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012307:Risk Factors; D017678:Sex Distribution; D013530:Surgical Wound Infection / Q000145:classification / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology* / Q000517:prevention & control; D013997:Time Factors