Control of hospital infection: description and paper of the state

Abstract

The nosocomial infections are complications related to health assistance and  they constitute the main cause of morbidity and nosocomial mortality, originating prejudices to the users, the community and the State. In this perspective, the purpose of this article has for objective to approach the history about hospital institutions and its relations with the infection control practices, beyond identify the paper of State, of the professionals of health and users of the service  in its control. One is about a study of literature revision on the basis of articles found in the Scielo, texts published on Sanitary Monitoring and pertinent bibliography, using the describers “hospital infection”, “hospital assistance” and “sanitary monitoring”. From the obtained material we proceed the reading to identify those that subsidized us in the comprehension of the relation among nosocomial infection, the hospital institutions and the State’s paper. As result, it was possible to relate “The hospitals and nosocomial infections” and “The control of the nosocomial infections and the State’s paper”. The information had access for the study allowed us to understand that the control of the IH involves a joint effort of different citizens and instances, that is, professionals of health, managers, State and community.