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24.05.2018 | What's New in Intensive Care
ECDC definitions and methods for the surveillance of healthcare-associated infections in intensive care units
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Diamantis Plachouras, Alain Lepape, Carl Suetens
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Intensive Care Medicine
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Ausgabe 12/2018
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On 5 May 2017, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) published its updated protocol for surveillance of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) and prevention indicators in European intensive care units (ICUs) [
1]. The ECDC’s Healthcare-Associated Infections surveillance Network (HAI-Net) has been coordinating European surveillance of HAIs in ICUs since 2008 with participation of 15 countries and 1365 ICUs in 2015 [
2]. The methodology was originally developed by the Hospitals in Europe Link for Infection Control through Surveillance (HELICS) project in 2000–2002 [
3] and adopted by ECDC in 2010. A revision of the first protocol was agreed at consensus expert meetings in 2013–2015. …