Objectives: To evaluate compliance to Surgical Site Infection control practices in Bach Mai Hospital from September 2010 to February 2011. Subjects and methods: The descriptive and prospective study on patients and health care workers at general surgical, anaesthetic and obstetric-gynecologic wards. Results: only 42.3 percent of patients took a bath before operations and only 46.5 percent of those patients wore clean clothes after having a bath. The average hand-hygiene time in health care workers was 2 minutes 12 seconds. 90 percent of health care workers used proper personal protective equipment when they entered operation areas. In wound dressing procedure, most health care workers had bad compliance to infection control practice with only less than 50 percent of them had good compliance during washing and disinfecting the surgical sites. Conclusion: There was a need for the close monitor and improvement of infection control practices among healthcare providers to reduce the incidence of SSls.
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