Surgical site infection in abdominal trauma patients: risk prediction and performance of the NNIS and SENIC indexes

摘要

BackgroundThe National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance (NNIS) and Efficacy of Nosocomial Infection Control (SENIC) indexes are designed to develop control strategies and to reduce morbidity and mortality rates resulting from infections in surgical patients. We sought to assess the application of these indexes in patients under-going surgery for abdominal trauma and to develop an alternative model to predict surgical site infections (SSIs).