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KMID : 0648619960010010001
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Korean Journal of Nosocomial Infection Control
1996 Volume.1 No. 1 p.1 ~ p.14
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The Scientific Basis for Starting a Cost-Effective Program to Reduce Nosocomial Infection Rates
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Robert W. Haley
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Abstract
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Surveillance, or registering, of nosocomial infections was traditionally considered only
a research tool in the field of infectious disease control. In the late 1960s eqidemiologists
in the United States noticed that measurements of the nosocomial infection rates made
in the course of staphylococcal infection epidemics in hospitals could change the
behavior of the physicians, nurses and other personnel in ways that would reduce the
infection rates [1]. This observation, though unproven at that time, led to a nationwide
recommendation in 1970 that all U. S. hospitals create positions for infection control
nurses and perform continuous surveillance to reduce their nosocomial infection rates [2].
Over the next decade most U. S. hospitals complied, setting in motion a nationwide
experiment [1, 3-6]
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