OBJECTIVE: To determine the feasibility of standardized surveillance of @entity580 ( @entity580 ) in The Netherlands, using local data on @entity1 with @entity580 collected by infection control practitioners (ICPs) and denominator data on all @entity1 under surveillance obtained from the Dutch National Medical Registry (LMR). DESIGN: A prospective, multicenter study. SETTING: Eight hospitals in the Utrecht region, and the National Institute of Public Health and the Environment. @entity1 : ICPs traced @entity580 in gynecological and orthopedic @entity1 for 9 to 16 months. Denominator data on all @entity1 under surveillance were obtained from the LMR. RESULTS: Data from 8,922 @entity1 were collected; the ICPs registered 470 @entity1 with 526 @entity580 . Overall, the @entity580 incidence was 5.9 per 100 @entity1 , or 6.3 per 1,000 @entity1 days. @entity293 ( @entity293 ) were most frequent (3.3%), followed by @entity6081 ( @entity6081 ; 2.0%) and @entity281 (0.12%). The incidence of both @entity6081 and @entity293 differed markedly between hospitals, only partially on account of differences in @entity1 mix (age, type of operations), antibiotic prophylaxis, and intensity of tracing methods for @entity580 . Delay in the availability of denominator data hampered the timely feedback of incidence figures. CONCLUSIONS: Surveillance of @entity580 in a network of sentinel hospitals offered valuable information on the occurrence of @entity580 and on factors influencing the incidence of @entity580 . It revealed situations in which both @entity580 surveillance and infection control methods in individual hospitals should be improved. Obtaining denominator data on all @entity1 from electronically registered @entity1 discharge data greatly reduces the workload of ICPs and enables surveillance on all types of @entity580 (all body sites and all pathogens). For timely feedback, numerator and denominator data within hospitals must be linked.

Sentinel system for XXXX in The Netherlands: a pilot study.

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['patients', 'patient', 'PATIENTS'] @entity6081 :: ('MESH:D013530', 'Disease') :: ['SWI', 'surgical-wound infections'] @entity281 :: ('MESH:D007239', 'Disease') :: ['bloodborne infections'] @entity580 :: ('MESH:D003428', 'Disease') :: ['NI', 'nosocomial infections'] @entity293 :: ('MESH:D014552', 'Disease') :: ['Urinary tract infections', 'UTI']
@entity580 :: (MESH:D003428,Disease) :: ['nosocomial infections']
