title: Surgical site infections, International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium (INICC) report, data summary of 30 countries, 2005-2010.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To report the results of a surveillance study on surgical site infections (SSIs) conducted by the International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium (INICC).
  
  
  METHODS
  Cohort prospective multinational multicenter surveillance study.
  
  
  METHODS
  Eighty-two hospitals of 66 cities in 30 countries (Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Greece, India, Kosovo, Lebanon, Lithuania, Macedonia, Malaysia, Mexico, Morocco, Pakistan, Panama, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Salvador, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Sudan, Thailand, Turkey, Uruguay, and Vietnam) from 4 continents (America, Asia, Africa, and Europe).
  
  
  METHODS
  Patients undergoing surgical procedures (SPs) from January 2005 to December 2010.
  
  
  METHODS
  Data were gathered and recorded from patients hospitalized in INICC member hospitals by using the methods and definitions of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Healthcare Safety Network (CDC-NHSN) for SSI. SPs were classified into 31 types according to International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, criteria.
  
  
  RESULTS
  We gathered data from 7,523 SSIs associated with 260,973 SPs. SSI rates were significantly higher for most SPs in INICC hospitals compared with CDC-NHSN data, including the rates of SSI after hip prosthesis (2.6% vs. 1.3%; relative risk [RR], 2.06 [95% confidence interval (CI), 1.8-2.4]; P < .001), coronary bypass with chest and donor incision (4.5% vs. 2.9%; RR, 1.52 [95% CI, 1.4-1.6]; [P < .001); abdominal hysterectomy (2.7% vs. 1.6%; RR, 1.66 [95% CI, 1.4-2.0]; P < .001); exploratory abdominal surgery (4.1% vs. 2.0%; RR, 2.05 [95% CI, 1.6-2.6]; P < .001); ventricular shunt, 12.9% vs. 5.6% (RR, 2.3 [95% CI, 1.9-2.6]; P < .001, and others.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  SSI rates were higher for most SPs in INICC hospitals compared with CDC-NHSN data.
authors: International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium, Buenos Aires, Argentina. victor_rosenthal@inicc.org
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mesh_terms: D000005:Abdomen / Q000601:surgery; D000349:Africa / Q000453:epidemiology; D019644:Arthroplasty, Replacement, Hip / Q000009:adverse effects; D001208:Asia / Q000453:epidemiology; D001026:Coronary Artery Bypass / Q000009:adverse effects; D003428:Cross Infection / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005060:Europe / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D007044:Hysterectomy / Q000009:adverse effects; D011159:Population Surveillance; D011446:Prospective Studies; D013020:South America / Q000453:epidemiology; D013530:Surgical Wound Infection / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology; D017287:Ventriculoperitoneal Shunt / Q000009:adverse effects