## Entering PPS patient, antimicrobial use and HAI data

The way in which you enter these data depends on the protocol being used:

• In the (unit-based) Light protocol, you only enter patient data for patients with any antimicrobial use and/or a healthcare-associated infection. Therefore, in the Light protocol, each patient record must include details of at least one antimicrobial use or HAI.

• In the (patient-based) Standard protocol, you enter all patient data for all patients, including those without HAI and/or antimicrobial use. Additional risk factors (not applicable to the Light protocol) appear once you select the ward.

Note:

• Antimicrobial use data and HAI data can only be accessed from the Patients form.

• Only records which have HAI/AU specific data entered will be included in prevalence results during final analysis, e.g. in reports generated by ECDC after upload to the TESSy database.

• The Antimicrobial use button is activated when the field Patient receives antimicrobial(s): is set to Yes.

• The HAI button is activated when the field Patient has at least one HAI: is set to Yes.

• No warning message is given if either of these fields are set to Yes and the corresponding AU/HAI data are not entered in the AU/HAI forms. These errors are only reported in the data quality check.

To enter patient data for antimicrobial use and HAI, click Patient/Antimicrobial use/HAI data in the main menu.

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