PROS AND CONS REPORTING NOSOCOMIAL INFECTIONS. MEDICAL AND ECONOMIC - FINANCIAL ISSUES
Abstract:
Nosocomial infection (NI) is a problem for all health systems, not only for the Romanian one.
Nosocomial infection is a major cause of morbidity and mortality, significantly affecting patients’
quality of life and impacting hospital institution by influencing human resources and increasing costs,
striking important and underfunded health systems. The prevalence of nosocomial infections is different
from one health system to another, depending on the type of hospital and its financing, systems of
prevention and control of infections related to care implemented by each medical institution, the quality
and assumed responsibility of human resources involved in healthcare, material and financial potential
available for the health system concerned, especially the resources allocated to the prevention and
proper management of the cases of nosocomial infection. Nosocomial infection is a real and familiar
public health problem with medical and financial-economic facets that affect all stakeholders in the
healthcare process. Prevention and control work should be intensified and the first step is to recognize
the problem and take responsibility for the proper management of the case
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