Nosocomial Infections

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Abstract
Nosocomial infections are infections that occur in an institutional setting, such as a hospital, convalescent center, or skilled-nursing facility. An international conference on nosocomial infections, sponsored by the Centers for Disease Control, was held in August 1980 to explore this broad area of concern in depth, with particular emphasis on problems and progress identified during the previous decade, and to anticipate developments and research activities in the 1980s. The proceedings of that conference, which form a comprehensive review of the subject, have been published.1 I shall discuss some of the more important points to emerge from the conference along with . . .