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Satellite Infection Control Committees within the Hospital: Decentralizing for Action

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2016

E.L. Ford-Jones ,
C.M. Mindorff  and
R. Gold
E.L. Ford-Jones*
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, The Hospital for Sick Children and, the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
C.M. Mindorff
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, The Hospital for Sick Children and, the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
R. Gold
Affiliation:
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics, The Hospital for Sick Children and, the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
*
Division of Infectious Diseases, The Hospital for Sick Children, 555 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5G 1X8
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The contemporary infection control program, whether independent or fully integrated into a hospital-wide quality assurance (QA) program, has a very broad scope including surveillance, outbreak management, education, policy/procedure development, environmental/construction surveillance, program evaluation and research (Table). The greatest problem organizing an infection control program has been identified as integration of its components so as to establish supervision and feedback among its participants, with the purpose of achieving steady progress.

Programs have historically been “centralized” with the hospital epidemiologist, infection control practitioner and hospital infection control committee responsible directly or indirectly for the maintenance of the system.’

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Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology , Volume 10 , Issue 8 , August 1989 , pp. 368 - 370
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 1989

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