[Hygienic and economic significance of sewer drainage in hospitals. Architectural changes in the guidelines of the Federal Health Office].
The hygienic importance of barrier zoning in hospitals has been evaluated on the basis of the relevant international literature between 1970 and 1989. There have been only a very few pertinent publications and in none has there been any pointer which would support the hypothesis of barriers having an infection-preventing effect. Using four University Hospitals in Baden-Würtemberg as paradigms, a model was prepared for calculating what space and cost savings were possible, if a simpler system could be installed, instead of the one demanded under federal regulations and already planned for the four hospitals. It was found that it would save a realizable area of 319,5 m2 at a potential cost saving of DM 1,138,335. By dispensing with hygienically not justifiable building work at the planning stage of new hospitals considerable greater costs could be avoided.
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Klinikhygiene, Universitätsklinikum, Staatlichen Hochbauverwaltung Baden-Württemberg, Freiburg.
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Daschner
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D003428:Cross Infection / Q000517:prevention & control*; D005858:Germany; D006749:Hospital Design and Construction / Q000191:economics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000592:standards*; D006785:Hospitals, University / Q000191:economics / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D014865:Waste Disposal, Fluid / Q000191:economics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000379:methods*
Hygienische und ökonomische Bedeutung von Schleusen im Krankenhaus. Die bauliche Umsetzung der Richtlinie des Bundesgesundheitsamtes.