HOSPITAL ACQUIRED INFECTIONS DEFINITION
Hospital Acquired Infections definition are infections acquired in a hospital by patient who was admitted for a reason other than that infection. An infection occuring in a patient in a hospital or other health care facility in whom the infection was not present or incubating at the time of admission. This includes infections acquired in the hospital but appearing after discharge, and also occupational infections among staff of the facility. NOSOCOMIAL INFECTIONS ON PUBLIC HEALTH Nosomical infections are widespread. They are important contributors to morbidity and mortality. They will become even more important as a public health problem with increasing economic and human impact. CROWDING A MAJOR FACTOR Increasing numbers and crowding of people. More frquirent impaired immunity (age, illness, treatments) Increasing bacterial resistance to antibiotics contributed as emerging problem. WHEN THE NOSOCOMIAL INFECTIONS MANIFEST? Majority of such infections becom...