[Online infection recording within the scope of total quality management].

The continuous and exact recording of infections is a condition sine qua non for total quality management. Therefore, at the Diakoniekrankenhaus Rotenburg (Wümme) a program which offers the possibility of online recording of data was integrated into the hospital intranet. The recording is done with network clients. The recording of data is supported by a series of plausibility controls. The advantage consists in immediate evaluation of up to date and extensive statistics of infections. By integration into the existing system, relevant influences and consequences such as the prolongation of hospitalisation, use of material, and frequency of reoperation can by recognized and immediately considered with high validity.