Surgical and Non-surgical Infections of Neurosurgical Patient: Before-after Cohort Study

Continuous surveillance in 2003-2017 allowed to detect HAIs in patients staying in a 42-bed neurosurgery unit with 6 intensive neurosurgical supervision beds. 10,332 surgical patients were qualified for the study. The study was carried out in the framework of a national surveillance of HAI programme following methodology recommended by Healthcare-Associated Infections Surveillance Network (HAI-Net), European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. Intervention in this before-after study (2003-2017) comprised standardised surveillance of HAI with regular analysis and feedback.