'Epidemiology of surgical site infection in a neurosurgery department'.

Objective: To know the rates of infection of the surgical wound in the Department of Neurosurgery between 2011 and 2014.

Methods: An observational, prospective study was conducted of the rates of surgical wound infection among patients admitted for more than 48 h to the Neurosurgery Department of a tertiary-level university hospital between July 2011 and December 2014.

Results: The study surveyed a total of 536 surgical procedures performed in 521 patients.