Investigating the status of system and control in Iran University of Medical Sciences hospitals

due to the importance of hospital infections, the need to diagnose the causes related to it was noticed, control and attention to this important cause reduction of mortality, reduction of therapeutic interventions, reduction of hospitalization time, reduction of hospital costs and increase of supply and improvement of the level The health of the society and the satisfaction of the healthcare system.

The current study is a cross-sectional descriptive study; which was measured in 6 sections including the infection prevention and control program organization, technical guide, human resources, microbiology laboratory support, environment and isolation space standards in the field of infection prevention and control. Descriptive statistics were used to describe and analyze the data of this research. After collecting the data and entering it into the software, statistical analysis was performed.

In this study, 73.5% of hospitals partially, 4% completely, and 23.5% did not comply with the index of the organization of infection prevention and control program. In terms of the index of technical guidelines, 6% of hospitals had fully complied and 94% had complied to some extent. Also, the human power index of 100% of the hospitals has partially matched this index. Microbiology laboratory support: 25% of hospitals fully, 73.5% partially and 1.5% of them did not comply with the index.

the performance of most hospitals in the field of compliance with infection control indicators, with the exception of the budget allocation indicator with the lowest level of compliance; It was average. It is necessary for health system officials to set patterns and agendas for allocating funds to ensure infection control activities. In the context of other indicators that are weak, it is suggested that hospital management take steps to improve the mentioned indicators with more monitoring and attention and short-term planning.