Analysing hospital factors influencing interhospital surgical site infection rates
by Vibha Gujar; Shankar Srinivasan; Dinesh P. Mital; Frederick D. Coffman
International Journal of Medical Engineering and Informatics (IJMEI), Vol. 14, No. 5, 2022

Abstract: Each hospital system in the USA displays its own population demographics, pathogenic profiles and surgical volume based on varying geographical location. Since care quality require updates for meaningful assessment of interhospital surgical site infection (SSI) rates by adding more features, this retrospective analysis compare 222,845 interhospital at-risk individuals from the five-year (2008-2012) Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) data. The regression analysis for each hospital size (small: < 250 beds, medium: up to 450 beds, and large: 450+ beds) demonstrated distinctive benchmarking high risk clusters of patients with cardiovascular and respiratory surgical procedures more in rural than urban hospitals. The infection rates from the results conversed the population prevalence, adjusting the socio-demographic and other hospital characteristics for the suitable case-mix which was believed to cause difficulty in recognising hospitals with high risks and incapability in tracking post-discharge SSI patients.

Online publication date: Wed, 07-Sep-2022

The full text of this article is only available to individual subscribers or to users at subscribing institutions.

 
Existing subscribers:
Go to Inderscience Online Journals to access the Full Text of this article.

Pay per view:
If you are not a subscriber and you just want to read the full contents of this article, buy online access here.

Complimentary Subscribers, Editors or Members of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Medical Engineering and Informatics (IJMEI):
Login with your Inderscience username and password:

Username:        Password:          Forgotten your password?

Want to subscribe?
A subscription gives you complete access to all articles in the current issue, as well as to all articles in the previous three years (where applicable). See our Orders page to subscribe.

If you still need assistance, please email subs@inderscience.com