Intervention in Clinical Department by Infection Control Team as Part of Its Prophylactic Activities

BESSHO Yuji, SUZUKI Mie, TAKAKURA Eriko, MORI Akiya, MATSUSHIMA Yumi, YANOU Kenji, MURATA Tetsuya, KAWAKAMI Keiki, YAMAMOTO Shinji, SEKO Yoshio, HAMADA Masayuki

doi:10.2185/jjrm.55.381

Since the Infection Control Team (ICT) was organized in 1999, our hospital has been engaged in evidence-based operations against nosocomial infections. The ICT's major activities included guidance in preventive measures against infections, surveillance involving continuous environmental monitoring, proposition as regards prescription of antibacterial medicines, and consultation with clinicians about prophylaxis. The team comprising physicians, nurses, pharmacists and clinical laboratory technicians has made expert propositions to clinicians. To be concrete, the team members, with the liaison clerk playing a central role, met with physicians in charge or with other staff members of the hospital, studied the infection cases in question, and presented the study findings to the clinicians. Fundamentally, therefore, it is not that the ICT intervenes in the affairs of the clinical department by way of directions but that it presents clinicians with the ideas gained through discussion between ICT members and physicians and other hospital staffers. While cementing a relationship of mutual trust between hospital employees, the ICT is expected to engage in nosocomial infection prevention activities by joining forces transdeoartmentally.

Intervention in Clinical Department by Infection Control Team as Part of Its Prophylactic Activities

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