Prevention of hospital infection

David K. Warren; Marin H. Kollef

doi:10.1016/j.micinf.2004.12.003

Prevention of hospital infection

David K. Warren, Marin H. Kollef

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Abstract

The prevention of nosocomial infections is an important aspect of patient care, particularly in high-risk areas such as intensive care units (ICUs). Local hospital leadership needs to develop easily defined infection-control policies that are evidence-based. These infection-control policies also require the presence of a dedicated group of infection-control practitioners to provide education, collect surveillance data, and oversee the implementation of the local infection-control plan.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	268-274
Number of pages	7
Journal	Microbes and Infection
Volume	7
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.micinf.2004.12.003
State	Published - Feb 2005

Keywords

Epidemiology
Hospital-associated infection
Prevention
Surveillance

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