Hospital-Acquired Infections

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Abstract
THE major infectious disease problems in most hospitals today are those that occur in the hospital — so-called nosocomial infections. In this discussion I shall define briefly the scope of the problem, explore some of the causes of the unacceptably high prevalence of hospital-acquired infections, evaluate some of the current preventive measures, and speculate on developments that may improve prevention and therapy. I shall focus on bacterial infections, although in certain classes of patients other organisms at times may be etiologic.The ProblemPrevalenceIn 1959, Rogers1 presented data from an autopsy study confirming that the types of infection causing . . .