WELCOME MESSAGE FROM THE DIRECTOR OF THE PROJECT
Dear visitor of the ZERO SURGICAL SITE INFECTION (IQZ) website.
We warmly welcome you to this website, health care professional or interested citizen. This website combines the altruistic effort of a whole team of people, so we hope you find all the desired information and soon, you will become a regular visitor or even an active partner of the Project.
Zero Surgical Site Infection project was born in 2013, as a Spanish Society of Preventive Medicine, Public Health and Hygiene initiative, in a few hospitals. We thought it was time to take action and avoid the most of surgical site infections (SSIs).
Since 2016, it is already a national project, sponsored by Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality of Spain and participation of regional health services and many medical-surgical and anesthesiology scientific societies (see list of societies participants).
SSIs are frequent adverse events (at least 1 in 20 operated patients), potentially severe (causing thousands of deaths every year in Spain) and very expensive for the patient and the health system (10-12,000 euros in direct costs for SSIs). They are also widely preventable events if preventive measures that are currently known are rigorously applied.
The project name is our mission statement: we aspire to reduce to a baseline minimum (zero if possible) the proportion of patients suffering SSIs, and we hope to achieve with effort and seriousness, implementing the best preventive measures in packages (bundles) endorsed by current scientific evidence. Some experiences have shown that the rigorous and multidisciplinary adoption of effective preventive measures applied in bundles, prevents the most of SSIs (up to 60% of SSIs are preventable).
In the different sections of the website you can find the contacts of the teams participating in IQZ, working protocols, training materials, scientific articles reviewed by experts, links, news and events on IQZ, among others. If you want your hospital be involved in the project, you also get a private area to enter your data, obtain reports and resolve all your doubts. For any question, please contact us via e-mail Esta dirección de correo electrónico está siendo protegida contra los robots de spam. Necesita tener JavaScript habilitado para poder verlo.
