TY - JOUR
T1 - How many infection control staff do we need in hospitals?
AU - van den Broek, P. J.
AU - Kluytmans, J. A. J. W.
AU - Ummels, L. C.
AU - Voss, A.
AU - Vandenbroucke-Grauls, C. M. J. E.
PY - 2007
Y1 - 2007
N2 - During a one-day workshop experienced infection control practitioners (ICPs) and medical microbiologists debated how much time was needed for the delivery of infection control activities in a model hospital. They agreed a standard of one full-time equivalent (FTE) ICP per 178 hospital beds and one FTE medical microbiologist per 806 hospital beds. This is 40% and 24% more than the usual standard, respectively. Now that official numbers of hospital beds have become an inadequate parameter for work delivered by hospitals, a new standard is proposed, with the number of admissions as the denominator. This is one FTE ICP per 5000 admissions and one medical microbiologist or epidemiologist per 25000 admissions
AB - During a one-day workshop experienced infection control practitioners (ICPs) and medical microbiologists debated how much time was needed for the delivery of infection control activities in a model hospital. They agreed a standard of one full-time equivalent (FTE) ICP per 178 hospital beds and one FTE medical microbiologist per 806 hospital beds. This is 40% and 24% more than the usual standard, respectively. Now that official numbers of hospital beds have become an inadequate parameter for work delivered by hospitals, a new standard is proposed, with the number of admissions as the denominator. This is one FTE ICP per 5000 admissions and one medical microbiologist or epidemiologist per 25000 admissions
U2 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhin.2006.10.003
DO - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhin.2006.10.003
M3 - Article
C2 - 17174007
SN - 0195-6701
VL - 65
SP - 108
EP - 111
JO - Journal of Hospital Infection
JF - Journal of Hospital Infection
IS - 2
ER -