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Summary of the International Workshop National Laws and Guidelines for Control of Infections

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Bertil Nyström ,
Hans Reber ,
Wolfgang Weuffen  and
William Schaffner
Bertil Nyström
Affiliation:
Karolinska Institute, Department of Clinical Microbiology, Huddinge University Hospital, Huddinge, Sweden
Hans Reber
Affiliation:
Central Laboratory, Kantonspital, Basel, Switzerland
Wolfgang Weuffen
Affiliation:
Hygiene Institute, Greifswald, German Democratic Republic
William Schaffner
Affiliation:
Department of Preventive Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, USA
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By way of introduction, Dr. Nyström described the hospital system in Sweden which is organized in a pyramidal fashion within each county. The largest hospital in each county contains a Department of Clinical Microbiology and the organization of hospital infection control activities follows this county structure.

An infection control unit is located within the clinical microbiology laboratory of the major county hospital. The head of the unit, the hospital epidemiologist, is usually a specialist in clinical microbiology with medical training. The epidemiologist has an infection control committee consisting of clinicians of various specialties, especially surgeons. There are usually two infection control nurses per county (now approximately 1 nurse/3000 beds with an eventual goal of 1 nurse/1000 to 1500 beds). The nurses advise the ward staff in all the county hospitals. There are only some 50 infection control nurses in Sweden; financial restrictions curtail the development of infection control activities.

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Information
Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 4 , Issue 5 , October 1983 , pp. 397 - 398
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1983

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