Mehtar S
Department of Microbiology, North Middlesex Hospital Trust, London, UK.
J Hosp Infect. 1993 Sep;25(1):57-69. doi: 10.1016/0195-6701(93)90009-o.
Infection control (IC) services in the United Kingdom are provided as part of the microbiology services and therefore they have not, to date, been costed separately. This paper addresses the cost of providing the service, the savings that accrue from the IC policies in a hospital and, finally, the cost of infective episodes and outbreaks. The point of the exercise is to enable readers to cost their own services and separate the IC and microbiology budgets while maintaining the provision of service under one department.
在英国，感染控制（IC）服务是作为微生物学服务的一部分提供的，因此迄今为止，尚未单独核算其成本。本文探讨了提供该服务的成本、医院实施感染控制政策所带来的节省，以及最后，感染事件和疫情的成本。这样做的目的是使读者能够核算自己服务的成本，并在由一个部门提供服务的同时，将感染控制预算和微生物学预算分开。
