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Hospital Infection Control in Sweden

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Bertil Nyström
Bertil Nyström*
Affiliation:
Department of Clinical Bacteriology, Huddinge University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
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F71, Huddinge University Hospital, S-141 86 HUDDINGE, Sweden
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Sweden is divided into 23 counties, each governed by a county council. Among many other things the county council is by law responsible for health, medical, and dental care for the inhabitants of the county, which means that virtually all hospitals are owned and run by the counties. There are very few private hospitals. The counties also run primary care outpatient centers. There are private practitioners in the larger cities, but only some 5% of physicians work full-time in private practice. However, more than 50% of dentists are in private practice.

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 8 , Issue 8 , August 1987 , pp. 337 - 338
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Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1987

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