Similarity of databases of infections associated with health care of tertiary hospitals.

Abstract

Objective. Determine the degree of similarity between Healthcare-Associated Infections databases, diagnosed in third-level hospitals of El Salvador´s Ministry of Health. Methodology. Observational, descriptive, comparing retrospectively Healthcare-Associated Infections digital databases and the data collection tools used to feed them, during 2015. The similarity between databases, and between these and the data collection tools used to feed them, was specified in percentages. Results. Hospital Nacional de Niños Benjamín Bloom and Hospital Nacional Rosales did not elaborate Forms for Individual Notification of Healthcare-Associated Infections during 2015. This could be due to the fact that clinicians responsible for filling out this form, as clinicians responsible for filling out the Admission/Discharge Form, do not comply to report all detected Healthcare-Associated Infections. Hospital Nacional de la Mujer, through the Form for Individual Notification of Healthcare-Associated Infections, reported in the Sistema Nacional de Vigilancia Epidemiológica database about 80% of the Healthcare-Associated Infections reported by their laboratory during 2015. Conclusions. The similarity between digital data bases of Healthcare-Associated Infections, and the similarity between these and data collection tools that feed them, is not satisfactory in Hospital Nacional de Niños Benjamín Bloom and Hospital Nacional Rosales. In Hospital Nacional de la Mujer the similarity is satisfactory, except for the transfer of data from the Admission/Discharge Form to the Sistema de Morbimortalidad en Linea database.

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