Frequently Asked Questions (F.A.Q.)

If the ward is not yet participating in ITS-KISS or STATIONS-KISS, you must first register it in webKess (Ward registration). Otherwise you can go to webKess on the respective ward under "Verwaltung" > "Surveillance-Plan: Zeitraum für Surveillance-Komponenten" select the pathogen surveillance for the current year. Further information on the surveillance components.

No, renewed authorisation is not required as pathogen surveillance was already possible.

No, you can pursue both surveillance objectives with one registration. Once your ward has been activated, simply make your selection in the ITS-/STATION-KISS module menu item under ‘Verwaltung’ > ‘Surveillance-Plan: Zeitraum für Surveillance-Komponenten’.

The definitions of MRGN can be found in the corresponding protocol for pathogen surveillance (page 15).

Following the KRINKO recommendation, the pathogen surveillance in ITS-KISS and STATION-KISS distinguishes between 3MRGN and 4MRGN, since the 1st of January 2013. More information can be found in the protocol for pathogen surveillance.

Please enter your data in webKess by the 15th of February of the following year, so that it is included in the reference data. Subsequent changes are possible.

In MRSA/CDI-KISS, surveillance is hospital-based, whereas pathogen surveillance in ITS-KISS or STATION-KISS is ward-based.

The pathogen surveillance introduced in January 2013 no longer only covers multi-resistant pathogens but also CDI. Since at least one pathogen (MRSA, VRE, MRGN or CDI) must always be recorded and CDI is not a multi-resistant pathogen, this linguistic peculiarity arises. You can select the pathogen in the ITS-KISS and STATION-KISS module menu item under ‘Verwaltung’ > ‘Surveillance-Plan: Zeitraum für Surveillance-Komponenten’.

No, CDI-KISS will continue to be used for surveillance of CDI infections at hospitals.

Yes, you can also pursue just one surveillance target. It is possible to switch to both surveillance objectives or from one to the other without having to register again. Simply make your selection in the ITS/STATIONS-KISS module menu item under "Verwaltung" > "Surveillance-Plan: Zeitraum für Surveillance-Komponenten".

The new data collection forms (patient history sheet incl. antibiotics & MRE case sheet) are available on the NEO-KISS-Page.

Patients do not have to be actively tested for MRE, but the MRE evidence (both infection and colonisation) should be documented.

No, the user accounts in webKess are personalised for reasons of data protection, so the password must not be passed on and access is only permitted to the person who registered.

In this case, the person concerned must submit an access request for the desired ward using their own user account.
This requires the following steps:

First you need to log in to webKess with your own access data. Simply select the link "Zugriff auf webKess-Station or -Abteilung beantragen" on the left side. Then select the corresponding Surveillance module and enter the required data. Both the hospital abbreviation and the ward abbreviation must be given in capital letters (e.g. hospital abbreviation: ZZZ Ward abbreviation: CHIR1).

Afterwards you will receive an email with a document, which must be signed. For some modules (e.g. OP-KISS, ITS-KISS), the signature of the ward's senior physician is also required. This form must then be sent to kiss-antrag@charite.de. As soon as we have processed the registration, the user will be informed by email and can access the KISS-data / module.

No, you only need one user account and you can keep it even if you change employer. You can use your existing account to register wards for another hospital or to request access to wards in other hospitals.

A certificate of attendance will only be issued as part of a KISS certificate, which is itemised by year and module. The application form for a KISS certificate can be found here. Please note that there are a number of conditions that must be met in order to receive a KISS certificate.

Please note that webKess no longer supports Internet Explorer. Please use an appropriate browser, such as Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, Chrome or Safari. If necessary, contact your in-house IT department for support.

Internet Explorer has not been developed any further since 2015 and will only receive security updates from Microsoft until June 2022. The browser's limited functionality has therefore made it necessary for us to take this step.

You can temporarily pause the recording of infections for individual wards. To do so, proceed as follows:
Log in to webKess. Open the relevant ward/department. Click on the ‘Verwaltung’ tab in the navigation bar. Click on the ‘Pause Infektionserfassung’ link. Please enter the start date of the recording break, the end date can also be added later. Click on ‘Speichern’. You can also edit previously entered recording breaks by clicking on the pencil icon in front of the respective entry.

The specifications for the OP import can be found on the NRZ website (KISS Import).

With the introduction of the new "surveillance end", the existing surgeries have been translated as far as possible so that these surgeries receive the status ‘Completed’.

However, surgeries whose surveillance period had not yet expired at the time of translation (depending on the type of surgery, this is 30 or 90 days after the date of surgery) and whose surveillance was not terminated prematurely due to follow up surgery or death of the patient, were not translated.

It is therefore planned that the translation will take place again in order to transfer the remaining surgeries with a surgery date before 1 January 2021 to the status ‘Completed’; namely on 31 January 2021 for surgery types with a surveillance time of 30 days and on 2 April 2021 for surgery types with a surveillance time of 90 days.

This means that no manual post-processing is required for surgeries with the status ‘Open’ and a surgery date before 1 January 2021. Unless the monitoring stops early due to follow-up surgery or patient death.

In webKess, every participant with the required authorisation has the option of correcting the data themselves under ‘Stammdaten Krankenhaus’ or ‘Stammdaten Station’. To change the master data, please follow the steps below:

Log in to webKess. Open the relevant ward/department. Click on the ‘Verwaltung’ menu item in the navigation bar. Click on the link ‘Stammdaten Station/Abteilung’ or ‘Stammdaten Krankenhaus’. Correct the incorrect data in the corresponding fields. Click on ‘Speichern’.