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Cross Infection Rates: Woden Valley Hospital

May/October 1992

Table included.

*Exclude Drug andAlcohol Unit

These numbers include readmissions of individual patients or multiple infections in the same patients.

Surgical Infection Rates: Woden Valley Hospital

May/October 1992

Table included.

*Excluding endoscopic procedures and minor theatre

(2) The Renal Unit at WodenValley Hospital comprises Ward 7B/C and

Haemodialysis. The Unit began keeping data on infection rates in May 1992.

From May to October 1992 there have been 2100 admissions to Ward 7B/C and the Haemodialysis Unit. There has been one cross infection of MESA in this period. Two other MESA infected patients became colonised outside Woden Valley Hospital. There have been no incidences of Rotaries during this same period of time.

(3) We are unable to compare rates with previous years as comparable data was not

collected prior to May 1992; uniform collection systems were not in place

throughout the Hospital, different collection methodologies were used and a

different casemix existed.

(4) Infection rates for the period May to October 1992 at Calvary Hospital were:

Cross Infections

None reported.

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