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CompletedNCT05355376

Colorectal Surgical Site Infection

Colorectal Surgical Site Infection: a Cohort Study About How Can we Decrease it

Status
Completed
Phase
Study type
Observational
Enrollment
1,139 (actual)
Sponsor
Centro Hospitalar Universitário Lisboa Norte · Academic / Other
Sex
All
Age
18 Years
Healthy volunteers
Not accepted

Summary

Surgical site infection (SSI) is one of the most common postoperative complications in surgery, with high morbidity. In the tertiary-center that the investigators evaluated they had a significant rate of surgical site infection. Because of that the investigators created a care bundle of measures in order to improve the outcomes.

Detailed description

Prospectively the investigators implemented a care bundle of measures with retrospective analysis, to decrease SSI . The superficial, deep and organ/space infections were evaluated and compared before and after care bundle implementation. Between january 1, 2016 and December 31, 2020, 1139 patient records relating to surgical incisions were submitted for analysis.

Conditions

Interventions

TypeNameDescription
PROCEDUREBundle of measures to decreased SSI

Timeline

Start date
2016-01-01
Primary completion
2020-12-31
Completion
2021-07-31
First posted
2022-05-02
Last updated
2022-05-05

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT05355376. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.