Skip to main content
Erschienen in: Intensive Care Medicine 12/2018

Open Access 24.05.2018 | What's New in Intensive Care

ECDC definitions and methods for the surveillance of healthcare-associated infections in intensive care units

verfasst von: Diamantis Plachouras, Alain Lepape, Carl Suetens

Erschienen in: Intensive Care Medicine | Ausgabe 12/2018

Einloggen, um Zugang zu erhalten

Excerpt

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. …
Anhänge
Nur mit Berechtigung zugänglich
Literatur
3.
Zurück zum Zitat Suetens C, Savey A, Labeeuw J, Morales I, HELICS-ICU (2002) The ICU-HELICS programme: towards European surveillance of hospital-acquired infections in intensive care units. Euro Surveill 7:127–128CrossRefPubMed Suetens C, Savey A, Labeeuw J, Morales I, HELICS-ICU (2002) The ICU-HELICS programme: towards European surveillance of hospital-acquired infections in intensive care units. Euro Surveill 7:127–128CrossRefPubMed
5.
6.
Zurück zum Zitat van der Kooi T, Sax H, Pittet D, van Dissel J, van Benthem B, Walder B, Cartier V, Clack L, de Greeff S, Wolkewitz M, Hieke S, Boshuizen H, van de Kassteele J, Van den Abeele A, Boo TW, Diab-Elschahawi M, Dumpis U, Ghita C, FitzGerald S, Lejko T, Leleu K, Martinez MP, Paniara O, Patyi M, Schab P, Raglio A, Szilagyi E, Zietkiewicz M, Wu AW, Grundmann H, Zingg W, PROHIBIT consortium (2018) Prevention of hospital infections by intervention and training (PROHIBIT): results of a pan-European cluster-randomized multicentre study to reduce central venous catheter-related bloodstream infections. Intensive Care Med 44:48–60. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-017-5007-6 CrossRefPubMed van der Kooi T, Sax H, Pittet D, van Dissel J, van Benthem B, Walder B, Cartier V, Clack L, de Greeff S, Wolkewitz M, Hieke S, Boshuizen H, van de Kassteele J, Van den Abeele A, Boo TW, Diab-Elschahawi M, Dumpis U, Ghita C, FitzGerald S, Lejko T, Leleu K, Martinez MP, Paniara O, Patyi M, Schab P, Raglio A, Szilagyi E, Zietkiewicz M, Wu AW, Grundmann H, Zingg W, PROHIBIT consortium (2018) Prevention of hospital infections by intervention and training (PROHIBIT): results of a pan-European cluster-randomized multicentre study to reduce central venous catheter-related bloodstream infections. Intensive Care Med 44:48–60. https://​doi.​org/​10.​1007/​s00134-017-5007-6 CrossRefPubMed
Metadaten
Titel
ECDC definitions and methods for the surveillance of healthcare-associated infections in intensive care units
verfasst von
Diamantis Plachouras
Alain Lepape
Carl Suetens
Publikationsdatum
24.05.2018
Verlag
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Erschienen in
Intensive Care Medicine / Ausgabe 12/2018
Print ISSN: 0342-4642
Elektronische ISSN: 1432-1238
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00134-018-5113-0

Weitere Artikel der Ausgabe 12/2018

Intensive Care Medicine 12/2018 Zur Ausgabe

What's New in Intensive Care

Ten false beliefs in neurocritical care

Update AINS

Bestellen Sie unseren Fach-Newsletter und bleiben Sie gut informiert.