Abstract

BATISTA, Taína Fagundes  and  RODRIGUES, Maria Cristina Soares. Surveillance of surgical site infection after hospital discharge in a teaching hospital of the Federal District, Brazil: a retrospective descriptive study in the period 2005-2010. Epidemiol. Serv. Saúde [online]. 2012, vol.21, n.2, pp.253-264. ISSN 1679-4974.  http://dx.doi.org/10.5123/S1679-49742012000200008.

OBJECTIVE: this study investigated the occurrence of surgical site infection (SSI) and characteristics of cases among patients served under the program of post-discharge surveillance of the General Surgery Teaching Hospital of Brasilia, Federal District, Brazil. METHODS: the retrospective descriptive study, from 2005-2010, used data obtained by consulting hospital information systems, patients records, and records of results of microbiological tests. RESULTS: during the study period, 4,098 were treated and 82.2% of them attended by the follow-up program. From 4,375 surgeries evaluated, (3.4%) 147 cases of SSI were diagnosed; Staphylococcus aureus was predominant among the 19 species isolated in cultures of the surgical site; a higher incidence of SSI occurred between the 6th and the 10th postoperative day. CONCLUSION: this study showed the importance of ambulatory accompaniment in reducing underreporting and its consequent contribution to the validity of indicators and in improving the surveillance of SSI in the health services.

Keywords : Surgical Procedures; Operative; Follow-up Studies; Ambulatory Care; Epidemiologic Surveillance; Surgical Wound Infection.

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