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The Impact of US-Style Infection Control Programs in an Asian Country

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Hsieh-Shong Leu
Hsieh-Shong Leu*
Affiliation:
Chang Gung Memorial Hospital Taipei Complex, Taiwan
*
Division Of Infectious Diseases and Infection Control, Department of Internal Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, #5 FuShing St., KweiShan, Taoyuan 333, Republic of China (Taiwan).
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Abstract

The impact of US-style infection control programs is global. There are many Asian countries that have translated US-style infection control programs into their own programs, but reports of those efforts are rarely published in English. This article describes the development of infection control in Taiwan and the development of intensive infection surveillance and control programs in a pioneer acute-care medical center that has 3,000 beds. The article also discusses problems that have arisen in translation of US infection control practices.

Type
Global Aspects of Infection Control
Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 16 , Issue 6 , June 1995 , pp. 359 - 364
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1995

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