title: [Management of infectious diseases and the role of Infection Control Team(ICT) in the cancer treatment].
abstract: Patients with malignancy undergoing treatment for the disease have an elevated risk of infectious diseases. Due to their immune status, bacterial translocation of normal flora from the intestine to the bloodstream and other events may occur, and are very difficult to prevent. However, infection from an external source can be prevented. This type of infection has been called nosocomial infection in recent years, or "healthcare-associated infection(HAI)". The strategies for preventing such infections are well-established, including transmission-based precautions and standard precautions, which are part of a comprehensive program established by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the United States of America. It is very important at the hospital level to implement these programs for infection prevention, educating new employees and existing healthcare workers, encouraging them to perform sanitary and safe ? practices, and measuring HAIs in the hospital. To maintain this activity in Japan, teamwork is needed, because of the lack of human resources dedicated to HAI prevention. This is called an Infection Control Team(ICT). Activity proposed by the ICT is described in detail here.
authors.affiliation: Division of Clinical Laboratory and Infection Control, Yamagata University Hospital, Japan.
authors.forename: Keita
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Morikane
mesh_terms: D003140:Communicable Disease Control / Q000191:economics; D003141:Communicable Diseases; D006282:Health Personnel / Q000193:education / Q000941:ethics; D006801:Humans; D017053:Infection Control; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000628:therapy