Volume 7, Number 2—April 2001
THEME ISSUE
4th Decennial International Conference on Nosocomial and Healthcare-Associated Infections
Prevention is Primary
Automated Methods for Surveillance of Surgical Site Infections
, Deborah S. Yokoe†, Kenneth E. Sands‡, and the CDC Eastern Massachusetts Prevention Epicenter Investigators
Table 2
Automated health-care data potentially useful for surgical site infection surveillance
| Availability of this information in specific locations | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Type of information | Hospitalsa | Automated medical records in physicians' offices | Payors (HMOs, insurers) |
| Demographic/personal information | |||
| sex age smoking status body mass index | Usually Usually Rarely Rarely | Usually Usually Sometimes Sometimes | Usually Usually Rarely Rarely |
| Preoperative health status | |||
| diagnoses procedures drug therapy ASA score | Sometimes Rarely Sometimes Sometimes | Usually Sometimes Sometimes Rarely | Usually Usually Usually Rarely |
| Procedure data | |||
| type (ICD-9, CPT) duration | Usually Sometimes | Sometimes Rarely | Usually Rarely |
| Inpatient postoperative care | |||
| diagnoses reoperation incision and drainage microbiology data antibiotic therapy | Usually Usually Usually Usually Usually | Sometimes Rarely Rarely Rarely Rarely | Usually Usually Sometimes Rarely Rarely |
| Postdischarge care diagnoses reoperation in another hospital incision and drainage microbiology data antibiotic therapy | Rarely Rarely Rarely Rarely Rarely | Usually Sometimes Usually Usually Sometimes | Usually Usually Usually Sometimes Usually |
aexcludes hospital-based physicians' offices
¹The CDC Eastern Massachusetts Prevention Epicenter includes Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts, CareGroup, Children's Hospital, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Partners Healthcare System, Tufts Health Plan, and Harvard Medical School. Investigators include L. Higgins, J. Mason, E. Mounib, C. Singleton, K. Sands, K. Kaye, S. Brodie, E. Perencevich, J. Tully, L. Baldini, R. Kalaidjian, K. Dirosario, J. Alexander, D. Hylander, A. Kopec, J. Eyre-Kelley, D. Goldmann, S. Brodie, C. Huskins, D. Hooper, C. Hopkins, M. Greenbaum, M. Lew, K. McGowan, G. Zanetti, A. Sinha, S. Fontecchio, R. Giardina, S. Marino, J. Sniffen, E. Tamplin, P. Bayne, T. Lemon, D. Ford, V. Morrison, D. Morton, J. Livingston, P. Pettus, R. Lee, C. Christiansen, K. Kleinman, E. Cain, R. Dokholyan, K. Thompson, C. Canning, D. Lancaster.