Frecuencia de infecciones asociadas a la atención de salud en el Hospital Vicente Corral Moscoso Cuenca 2015

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Infections Associated with Health Care (HAI) are a major public health problem for patients, family, community and state, remains an important issue for institutions and health personnel; to be an adverse event can be prevented. Every day, IAAS cause prolongation of hospital stays, long-term disability, resistance of microorganisms, unnecessary deaths and high costs for health systems (1) (2). GENERAL OBJECTIVE: To determine the frequency of Healthcare-associated Infections (HAI) at the Vicente Corral Moscoso Hospital during the months July - December 2015. METHODS: An observational, descriptive, cross-sectional, retrospective study was carried out, the study universe consisted of 7814 medical records of the patients seen in the hospitalization services during the study period, which were distributed according to the inclusion and exclusion criteria, being 3723 (47.6%) included medical records and 4091 (52.4%) excluded that correspond to unavailable, incomplete, and repeated date of hospitalized patients in the obstetrics and emergency areas, conforming the study sample 3723 income. The evaluation of the IAAS was based on the form taken from a study carried out by the Hospital Epidemiological Surveillance System of Peru. The information was analyzed in the program SPSS version 15, simple tables of frequencies and percentages were realized RESULTS: The prevalence of Associated Infections to Health Care in the 3723 hospitalized patients was 370 (10,0%) events in 344 patients, of which 112 (30.3%) were Urinary Tract Infections (UTI); 103 (27.8%) Bloodstream Infections (STI); 81 (21.6%) Pneumonia Associated with Health Care (PAHC); 60 (16.2%) Surgical Site Infection (SSI); 14 (4.1%) Reproductive Tract Infections (RTI). Being the ITU with 73 (65.2%) predominant in the clinic service. The age groups affected were children under one month and adults aged 66 to 75 years, with males with 211 events, of which 25.5% were of SSI