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'''The “Point prevalence survey of healthcare associated infections and antimicrobial use in European acute care hospitals” protocol has the following inclusion/exclusion criteria:'''
  
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* hospitals:
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** all acute care hospitals are eligible for inclusion without size limits. An acute care hospital is defined according to national definitions.
  
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* wards:
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** Include all wards in acute-care facilities, including, for example, chronic care and long-term care wards, acute psychiatric wards and neonatal ICUs.
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** Excluded: accident & emergency department (except for wards attached to A&E departments where patients are monitored for more than 24 hours).
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** The ward specialty is always recorded so that results can be stratified and standardised.
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* patients:
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** all patients admitted to the ward before or at 8 a.m. and not discharged from the ward at the time of the survey are included; in practice, this means that patients transferred in/out after 8 a.m. from/to another ward should not be included (see Figure 1). Neonates on maternity and paediatric wards if born before/at 8 a.m. are include. Long-term care patients in acute care wards are included unless more than 20% of the patients in the acute care ward are long-term care patients.
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** exclude day cases:
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*** patients undergoing same day treatment or surgery;
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*** patients seen at outpatient department;
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*** patients in the emergency room;
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*** dialysis patients (outpatients).
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'''FEM PAGE CONTRIBUTORS 2007'''
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;Contributors
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:Vladimir Prikazsky
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:Carl Suetens
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[[Category:ECDC PPS in acute care hospitals]]

Latest revision as of 19:15, 11 April 2023

The “Point prevalence survey of healthcare associated infections and antimicrobial use in European acute care hospitals” protocol has the following inclusion/exclusion criteria:

  • hospitals:
    • all acute care hospitals are eligible for inclusion without size limits. An acute care hospital is defined according to national definitions.
  • wards:
    • Include all wards in acute-care facilities, including, for example, chronic care and long-term care wards, acute psychiatric wards and neonatal ICUs.
    • Excluded: accident & emergency department (except for wards attached to A&E departments where patients are monitored for more than 24 hours).
    • The ward specialty is always recorded so that results can be stratified and standardised.
  • patients:
    • all patients admitted to the ward before or at 8 a.m. and not discharged from the ward at the time of the survey are included; in practice, this means that patients transferred in/out after 8 a.m. from/to another ward should not be included (see Figure 1). Neonates on maternity and paediatric wards if born before/at 8 a.m. are include. Long-term care patients in acute care wards are included unless more than 20% of the patients in the acute care ward are long-term care patients.
    • exclude day cases:
      • patients undergoing same day treatment or surgery;
      • patients seen at outpatient department;
      • patients in the emergency room;
      • dialysis patients (outpatients).


FEM PAGE CONTRIBUTORS 2007

Contributors
Vladimir Prikazsky
Carl Suetens
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