Over view of various infection control activities conducted by hospital infection control committee at KIMS

Anil Kumar B, Madhavi Latha, Marriyamma KT, Krishna Reddy A

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 Anil Kumar B^1,*, Madhavi Latha¹, Marriyamma KT¹ and Krishna Reddy A²

¹Department of Laboratory Medicine, Krishna Institute of Medical sciences, Minister Road, Secunderabad - 500003, AP, India

²Department of Neuro Surgery, Krishna Institute of Medical sciences, Minister Road, Secunderabad - 500003, AP, India

Received 23 October 2013; Revised 13 December 2013; Accepted 20 December 2013

*Corresponding author: Dr. Anil Kumar Bilolikar, MD, Microbiologist, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Krishna Institute of Medical sciences, Minister Road, Secunderabad - 500003, AP, India. Email: kims.dls@gmail.com

Citation: Anil Kumar B. Over view of various infection control activities conducted by hospital infection control committee at KIMS. J Med Sci Res 2014; 2(1):45-49. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.17727/JMSR.2014/2-009  

Copyright: © 2014 Anil Kumar B et al. Published by KIMS Foundation and Research Center. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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Abstract

Hospital Infection Control Committee (HICC) play an important role in conducting the various activities which are important for the patient, attendant and health care workers. The Committee members discuss and prepare policies regarding the practice of infection control and strategies for surveillance, prevention & control of health care associated infections, antimicrobial resistance and related events in healthcare settings.