Table 1. Surveillance of lower respiratory tract infection in surgical departments participating in the national nosocomial infection system (OP-KISS), Germany, 2018–2022.
| Procedure type | Departments | Procedures | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LRTI | SSI | % | LRTI | SSI | % | ||
| All procedures | 62 | 1,589 | 3.9 | 23,239 | 1,332,438 | 1.7 | |
| Lobectomy | 12 | 39 | 30.8 | 4,000 | 10,936 | 36.6 | |
| Abdominal surgery | 14 | 403 | 3.5 | 1,672 | 186,483 | 0.9 | |
| Traumatology and orthopaedics | 24 | 721 | 3.3 | 8,865 | 666,198 | 1.3 | |
LRTI: lower respiratory tract infections; OP-KISS: the German surveillance module for operated patients (OP) as part of the German national nosocomial infection system (Krankenhaus-Infektions-Surveillance-System (KISS)); SSI: surgical site infections.