Reference documents

Please find below the Northern Ireland version of the 2017 European Centre for Disease Control (ECDC) manual for the point prevalence survey (PPS) of hospital acquired infection and antimicrobial use. Associated with this please find copies of the data collection instruments and training presentations.

PHA also shares background material on surgical site infection surveillance below.

This information here is kept up-to-date, so these documents may be downloaded, in hard copy, for use by colleagues. Users should check back periodically to ensure that they are using the most recent resources.  Please reply to hcaini@hscni.net  if you have any comments or queries. 

 

About reference documents  Link to reference document

PPS Protocol and Codebook for use in Northern Ireland (April 2017)

NI Protocol_PPS_2017.zip
PHA PPS Training Presentations (April 2017) PHA_PPS_2017_Training_presentations.zip

Generic SSI manual on definitions of SSI, type, classification and associated risk factor data items

Generic_SSI MANUAL_v2014_1.pdf

This document contains relevant OPCS codes and microorganism for SSI surveillance

SSI (N Ireland) codes _v2014_1.pdf
How to enter webforms, add records, modify data, save and submit records Using Webform_24oct14.pdf