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Development of a single, practical measure of surgical site infection (SSI) for patient report or observer completion
BACKGROUND: Surgical site infections (SSIs) are the third most common hospital-associated infection and can lead to significant patient morbidity and healthcare costs. Identification of SSIs is key to surveillance and research but reliable assessment is challenging, particularly after hospital disch...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5495441/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28989524 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1757177416689724 |
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author | Macefield, Rhiannon C Reeves, Barnaby C Milne, Thomas K Nicholson, Alexandra Blencowe, Natalie S Calvert, Melanie Avery, Kerry NL Messenger, David E Bamford, Richard Pinkney, Thomas D Blazeby, Jane M |
author_facet | Macefield, Rhiannon C Reeves, Barnaby C Milne, Thomas K Nicholson, Alexandra Blencowe, Natalie S Calvert, Melanie Avery, Kerry NL Messenger, David E Bamford, Richard Pinkney, Thomas D Blazeby, Jane M |
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description | BACKGROUND: Surgical site infections (SSIs) are the third most common hospital-associated infection and can lead to significant patient morbidity and healthcare costs. Identification of SSIs is key to surveillance and research but reliable assessment is challenging, particularly after hospital discharge when most SSIs present. Existing SSI measurement tools have limitations and their suitability for post-discharge surveillance is uncertain. AIMS: This study aimed to develop a single measure to identify SSI after hospital discharge, suitable for patient or observer completion. METHODS: A three-phase mixed methods study was undertaken: Phase 1, an analysis of existing tools and semi-structured interviews with patients and professionals to establish the content of the measure; Phase 2, development of questionnaire items suitable for patients and professionals; Phase 3, pre-testing the single measure to assess acceptability and understanding to both stakeholder groups. Interviews and pre-testing took place over 12 months in 2014–2015 with patients and professionals from five specialties recruited from two UK hospital Trusts. FINDINGS: Analyses of existing tools and interviews identified 19 important domains for assessing SSIs. Domains were developed into provisional questionnaire items. Pre-testing and iterative revision resulted in a final version with 16 items that were understood and easily completed by patients and observers (healthcare professionals). CONCLUSION: A single patient and observer measure for post-discharge SSI assessment has been developed. Further testing of the validity, reliability and accuracy of the measure is underway. |
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spelling | pubmed-54954412017-07-20 Development of a single, practical measure of surgical site infection (SSI) for patient report or observer completion Macefield, Rhiannon C Reeves, Barnaby C Milne, Thomas K Nicholson, Alexandra Blencowe, Natalie S Calvert, Melanie Avery, Kerry NL Messenger, David E Bamford, Richard Pinkney, Thomas D Blazeby, Jane M J Infect Prev Original Articles BACKGROUND: Surgical site infections (SSIs) are the third most common hospital-associated infection and can lead to significant patient morbidity and healthcare costs. Identification of SSIs is key to surveillance and research but reliable assessment is challenging, particularly after hospital discharge when most SSIs present. Existing SSI measurement tools have limitations and their suitability for post-discharge surveillance is uncertain. AIMS: This study aimed to develop a single measure to identify SSI after hospital discharge, suitable for patient or observer completion. METHODS: A three-phase mixed methods study was undertaken: Phase 1, an analysis of existing tools and semi-structured interviews with patients and professionals to establish the content of the measure; Phase 2, development of questionnaire items suitable for patients and professionals; Phase 3, pre-testing the single measure to assess acceptability and understanding to both stakeholder groups. Interviews and pre-testing took place over 12 months in 2014–2015 with patients and professionals from five specialties recruited from two UK hospital Trusts. FINDINGS: Analyses of existing tools and interviews identified 19 important domains for assessing SSIs. Domains were developed into provisional questionnaire items. Pre-testing and iterative revision resulted in a final version with 16 items that were understood and easily completed by patients and observers (healthcare professionals). CONCLUSION: A single patient and observer measure for post-discharge SSI assessment has been developed. Further testing of the validity, reliability and accuracy of the measure is underway. SAGE Publications 2017-02-01 2017-07 /pmc/articles/PMC5495441/ /pubmed/28989524 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1757177416689724 Text en © The Author(s) 2017 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits any use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | Original Articles Macefield, Rhiannon C Reeves, Barnaby C Milne, Thomas K Nicholson, Alexandra Blencowe, Natalie S Calvert, Melanie Avery, Kerry NL Messenger, David E Bamford, Richard Pinkney, Thomas D Blazeby, Jane M Development of a single, practical measure of surgical site infection (SSI) for patient report or observer completion |
title | Development of a single, practical measure of surgical site infection (SSI) for patient report or observer completion |
title_full | Development of a single, practical measure of surgical site infection (SSI) for patient report or observer completion |
title_fullStr | Development of a single, practical measure of surgical site infection (SSI) for patient report or observer completion |
title_full_unstemmed | Development of a single, practical measure of surgical site infection (SSI) for patient report or observer completion |
title_short | Development of a single, practical measure of surgical site infection (SSI) for patient report or observer completion |
title_sort | development of a single, practical measure of surgical site infection (ssi) for patient report or observer completion |
topic | Original Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5495441/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28989524 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1757177416689724 |
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