title: A real-time surgical site infections surveillance mode to monitor surgery classification-specific, hospital-wide surgical site infections in a Chinese tertiary hospital.
abstract: We introduced a real-time surgical site infections surveillance mode (SSISM) to monitor hospital-wide surgical site infections (SSIs) based on the ICD-9-CM Volume 3 operational codes and the ICD-10 disease codes. Compared with the gold standard, the SSISM confirmed 71.9% (82/114) of SSIs from 3,048 operations with a 60-fold time-savings. The SSISM could obtain the SSI rates for each type of surgery or disease among hospital-wide inpatients in a tertiary hospital with 3,800 beds.
authors.affiliation: Department of Infection Management and Disease Control, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China.
authors.forename: Mingmei
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Du
authors.affiliation: Department of Hematology, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China.
authors.forename: Meng
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Record Management, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China.
authors.forename: Kexin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: Department of Infection Management and Disease Control, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China.
authors.forename: Jijiang
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Suo
authors.affiliation: Department of Infection Management and Disease Control, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China.
authors.forename: Yubin
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Xing
authors.affiliation: Department of Infection Management and Disease Control, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China.
authors.forename: Bowei
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: Xinglin Information Technology Company, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China.
authors.forename: Rui
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Huo
authors.affiliation: Xinglin Information Technology Company, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China.
authors.forename: Chunping
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.affiliation: Department of Infection Management and Disease Control, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Beijing, China. Electronic address: 1425628298@qq.com.
authors.forename: Yunxi
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Liu
mesh_terms: D002681:China / Q000453:epidemiology; D062665:Epidemiological Monitoring; D006801:Humans; D013530:Surgical Wound Infection / Q000453:epidemiology*; D062606:Tertiary Care Centers
keywords: Hospital-wide surveillance; Surgical site infections; Surveillance system