Akçay Müfide Nuran, Kadanali Ayten, Oztürk Gürkan
Ataturk University Faculty of Medicine, Department of Surgery, Erzurum, Turkey.
Ulus Travma Acil Cerrahi Derg. 2003 Oct;9(4):225-31.
Hospital-acquired infections are the ones that develop within hospital stay or appear after discharge. These infections are associated with an increased rate of morbidity and mortality, longer hospital stay and higher hospital costs and Hospital Infections Control Committees have been founded to prevent it. In this review, we intended to investigate the role of the surgeon in this committee.