Krankenhaushygiene – Das Krankenhaus-Infektions-Surveillance-System (KISS)

Abstract

According to §23 of the prevention of infections act (Infektionsschutzgesetzes, IfSG), the directors of hospitals and facilities for ambulant operations are obliged to continuously record and evaluate nosocomial infections. In this way it is intended that quality management with regard to the prevention of nosocomial infections should be improved. The national reference centre for the surveillance of nosocomial infections (NRC) has developed a computer and internet-assisted system and made it available: the hospital infection surveillance system (KISS). With this method at hand it is now possible to conduct a uniform surveillance of nosocomial infections that takes the most important influencing and risk factors into consideration and thus permits orienting comparisons. Participation in the KISS is possible free of charge.

Impact of discontinuing contact precautions and enforcement of basic hygiene measures on nosocomial vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium transmission

“…As part of the horizontal apporach, daily antiseptic body wash with Octenidine was introduced for all ICU patients. Hand disinfectant consumption as a measure of compliance was monitored using the surveillance instrument "HAND-KISS" of the German National Reference Center for Surveillance of Nosocomial Infections (13). VRE screening and surveillance remained unchanged.…”

Interdisciplinary Infection Prevention and Control Bundle in Neurosurgical Patients: Results of a Prospective Cohort Study

“…8 Reference data for different categories of operative procedures and structured data analysis are framed in national surveillance systems, such as the American “NHSN” (National Healthcare Safety Network) or the German “KISS” (Krankenhaus-Infektions-Surveillance-System). 9,10 However, such surveillance systems and bundle approaches for infection prevention and control do not necessarily capture the full complexity of neurosurgical interventions considering the immune-privileged central nervous system (CNS) and different areas of surgical interventions (ie, cranial, spinal, and peripheral nerve surgery). This aspect is supported by the fact that most of the published infection prevention bundles focus either on cranial or spine surgeries.…”

Surveillance von postoperativen Wundinfektionen – methodischer Vergleich von IQTIG- und KISS-Strategie

“…In Deutschland wurde hierzu im Jahr 1995 das Nationale Referenzzentrum für Surveillance von nosokomialen Infektionen (NRZ) etabliert (Kerwat et al 2010a;NRZ 2018) sowie im darauffolgenden Jahr das KISS entwickelt und aufgebaut (Kerwat et al 2010a).…”

“…Bei den zunächst zwanzig teilnehmenden Krankenhäusern wurde sich auf die Überwachung intensivpflichtiger Patienten sowie postoperativer Wundinfektionen nach bestimmten Indikatoroperationen beschränkt (Gastmeier et al 2003;Kerwat et al 2010a).…”