title: [Cooperation of the clinical laboratory and infection control department in prevention of hospital infections].
abstract: Recently, environments that surround hospitals are changing every moment, and hospital infections are no exceptions. As medical technology advances and population of the elderly grow larger steadily, so does the number of immune-compromised hosts. Many patients come to hospitals infected, and in such situations prevention of hospital infections has great amount of importance. Cooperation of microbiological laboratory and ICT is indispensable, accumulation and analysis of the data of resistant bacteria isolated from various medical materials are the biggest task of microbiological lab. Furthermore, nutrition support based on the values of clinical examinations is set as the ultimate goal and NST's cooperation plays a big part in supporting the control of hospital infections.
authors.affiliation: Department of Clinical Laboratories, Yamagata University Hospital, Yamagata.
authors.forename: Choichiro
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Takahashi
authors.forename: Makoto
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tominaga
mesh_terms: D003428:Cross Infection / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006748:Hospital Departments; D006801:Humans; D016867:Immunocompromised Host; D017053:Infection Control / Q000458:organization & administration; D007755:Laboratories, Hospital; D018529:Nutritional Support; D010348:Patient Care Team