EXPERIMENTAL NOSOCOMIAL INFECTION SURVEIL LANCE IN A MIDDLE RANGE HOSPITAL BY A STANDARDIZED EPIDEMIOLOGIC SURVEY

For a middle range hospital (12 000 patients/year) without computerize d network,a continuous epidemiological surveillance of nosocomial infe ctions in care units provides some problems. However, this method is b etter than a surveillance by the microbiological laboratory, because i t involves the active participation of medical staff The surveillance system we describe here uses the participation of a multidisciplinary team (epidemiologist, biologist, pharmacist), all members of the Comit tee of Infection Control : CLIN. In order to reach a maximal standardi zation to exchange future informations, the help of the CLIN of an uni versity hospital has been request.