Investigating the incidence and control of hospital infections

Abstract

Introduction:Mostly generating within the environment of the hospital, hospital infection refers to those kinds of infection which occur when the patient is hospitalized; the patient is not initially infected; rather he picks the infection up while being hospitalized in the hospital at least for 48 hours. Methods:In this review article, the databases Medline, Cochrane, Science Direct, and Google Scholar were thoroughly searched to identify the studies Investigating the incidence and control of hospital infections. In this review, the papers published until early January 2017 that were conducted to study the Investigating the incidence and control of hospital infections were selected. Findings:An infectious disease that occurs in a person after being admitted to a hospital or after birth in a hospital, in which the person has not been infected before being admitted to hospital during the period of the disease, is called a hospital infection. Since the incubation period is, on average, 2-3 days, hospital infections are reported after 48 hours or the first 72 hours of hospitalization; consequently, patients whose infections appear prior to the passage of 48 hours of hospitalization are not usually categorized in this group. Discussion and conclusion: Some important recommendations which might help alleviate the burden of this serious healthcare system problem include trying to improve the quality of nursing care, providing particle instruction for the staff, continuous monitoring of hospital infections, provision of facilities, implementation of infection control programs, prioritizing the hospital departments for the precise application of health measures, emphasizing preventive measures such as through hand cleansing, and designing and advertising informative training programs through mass media.