Incision Infection after Operation:An Investigation of 111 Cases and Prevention Measures / 中华医院感染学杂志

ABSTRACT

OBJECTIVE To summarize the infection cases and the factors causing site infection after operations,and investigate the measures to prevent and reduce exogenous incision infection.METHODS Discharged patients from Jan 1st,2003 to May 31st,2006 in our hospital were investigated for retrospective analysis on incision infection cases.RESULTS Totally 111 incision infection cases were reported from 54 286 cases.The nosocomial infection rate in this cohort was 0.21%(111/54 286),which was 33.44% of total surgical incision infection cases.CONCLUSIONS Incision infection is one of the most commonly encountered concomitant symptoms,it is as well the bottleneck for our hospital to reduce average stay length of surgical patients and patients′ hospitalization expenses,and to speed up turnover of beds.Incision infection rate is also an important criterion to evaluate the management quality and medical technology quality within and among hospitals.Effective measures should be taken to decrease incision infection rate and to resolve the problem that is difficult to hospitalize and expensive to treat.