Antibiotic Consumption Surveillance (AVS)

Short Description

Surveillance Objective: Antibiotic Consumption Surveillance

Surveillance Principle: Cost center-based

Description: The Antibiotic Consumption Surveillance module was developed through collaboration between the Robert Koch Institute and the Institute for Hygiene and Environmental Medicine, Charité Berlin, to comply with Paragraph 23, Section 4, Sentence 2 of the Infection Protection Act (IfSG).

The module collects the following data:

Hospital master data
Organizational structures of the hospital
Occupancy data
Consumption data

The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) is responsible for the conceptual development and oversight of the project. Technical implementation and support are jointly provided by the RKI and the Institute for Hygiene, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin.

Files

To provide participants in the Antibiotic Consumption Surveillance with an overview of the first steps, we have prepared the following diagrams:

Flowchart Registration

Flowchart Import

To prepare the surveillance files to be imported into webKess, such as occupancy data and consumption data, you will need this document:

Import Specification (Version 2.04, May 2023)

Access

You can find the official project page of the RKI for Antibiotic Consumption Surveillance here:

amr.rki.de/