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Point prevalence survey (PPS) on healthcareassociated infections (HCAIs) and antimicrobial use in acute care hospitals

In 2009, ECDC developed a plan to survey prevalence of infections associated with health care (HAI) and the use of antimicrobials in acute care hospitals in Europe. The aim of this surveillance is to assess the prevalence of HAI and the use of antimicrobials, a description of patients, invasive procedures, infections, prescribing of antimicrobial drugs according to the type of patients, departments and clinics and compare it throughout the EU countries. Importance of surveillance is the comparison of results at local, regional, national and EU level. The criterion for participation is that the institution is an acute care hospital. The surveillance ncluded patients admitted to the department before 8:00 a.m. and not discharged from the ward at the time of the survey. Patients who were temporarily away from the ward (e.g., for medical imaging, endoscopy, surgery) still had to be included in the survey. Day case admissions, outpatients (including patients attending the hospital for haemodialysis) and patients at the accident and emergency department were excluded. Data were collected in two ways: standard and light according to a standardized form for point prevalence surveillance (PPS), which was formulated and approved by the ECDC. Hospitals entered their data directly into an adapted version of the ESAC WebPPS. Observation period of our PPS was from 01-07 to 13-07-2010.The patient-based protocol should be preferred for the ECDC EU-wide PPS of HAI and antimicrobial use as it allows collection of detailed data and subsequent analyses of risk factors for HAI and antimicrobial use.

Healthcare associated infections; antimicrobial use; point prevlence survey

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