Surgical site infections in Slovenian acute care hospitals: Surveillance results, 2013–2016

Abstract

The objective was to present the results of the Slovenian National surgical site infections (SSIs) surveillance system from 2013 to 2016 and to compare them to the reference data for the European Union (EU) and European Economic Area (EEA) countries.

Keywords

• healthcare-associated infections
• surgical site infections
• surveillance
• slovenia
• okužbe, povezane z zdravstvom
• okužbe kirurške rane
• epidemiološko spremljanje
• slovenija