The International Nosocomial Infection consortium (INICC) was established in the 90's when selected hospitals in Latin America began routinely collecting healthcare-associated infection surveillance data to be included in an international database.
Hospitals invited to participate in the consortium, provide general medical and surgical inpatient services to adults and children requiring acute care.
The INICC, founded and leaded by Dr. Victor D. Rosenthal, has initially focused on determining the incidence of device-associated, healthcare associated infections, and surgical site infections in medical centers.
Data from the participating hospitals are collected using standardized healthcare-associated infections definitions supplied by NNIS- CDC and specific protocols developed by INICC.
At present, INICC counts on the contribution of around 400 researchers worldwide, from several medical centers at more than 82 cities from 29 countries of four continents: 1- Argentina, 2- Brazil, 3- Colombia, 4- Costa Rica, 5-Croatia, 6- Cuba, 7- Dominican Republic, 8- El Salvador,9- Guatemala, 10- India, 11- Italy, 12- India, 13- Japan, 14- Kosova, 15- Lebanon, 16- Macedonia, 17- Malaysia, 18- Mexico, 19- Morocco, 20- Nigeria, 21- P.R. China, 22- Pakistan, 23- Panama, 24- Peru, 25- Philippines, 26- Saudi Arabia, 27- Thailand, 28-Turkey, and 29- Uruguay.
Through participation in the study Health Care Centers and their professional team will acquire new effective tools to improve the measurement of health care associated infection rates, extra length of stay, attributable cost, mortality, risk factors analysis, and other related data.
Information gathered by professionals at each Health Care Center is part of a pool of worldwide collected data which allows accurate risk factors analysis and evaluation of useful and cost effective interventions to be made.
By applying the infection control guidelines, performance feedback, and other measures, behavior of the health care workers at medical centers improves significantly.
By joining INICCs initiatives most relevant goals can be achieved: reduction of the mortality, rates, costs and bacterial resistance.
The Central Office team drafts monthly fully complete reports, showing charts and tables of the global rates per 100 patients, and per 1000 bed days, device-associated healthcare-associated infections per 1000 device days, microbiological profile, attributable mortality by type of device-associated infection, extra length of stay, hand hygiene compliance, and CVC and urinary catheter compliance and others to be sent to each participating hospital.
As participants of an International Research Institute, professionals of each Health Care Center are co-authors of many multi-center abstracts presented at international scientific meetings and manuscripts published in international peer review journals.
We would like to highlight that more than 200 INICC studies were presented in many national and international scientific meetings, and published in peer review journals.
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