Role of science in infection control and healthcare

The functioning of the hospital is not only to treat diseases, but also has to ensure that the patient can recover in time and go home. When a patient has to stay in the hospital for a long time, it not only creates mental and economic pressure for that patient, but also affects the system of the entire hospital. Often this prolonged stagnation is not due to any serious illness but due to hospital-borne infection. If a patient gets infection after operation or while recruiting, then his recovery slows down and has to stay in the hospital for extra days. This condition becomes cumbersome to the patient's family and also increases pressure on hospital services.

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Infection control is considered so important, because it directly affects the length of stay. When the standards of infection control are properly applied in the hospital, the patient becomes healthy in the expected time. Hand washing, correct cleaning of equipment, isolation technology, and proper use of medicines-all these small measures are seen but their results are very large. For example, if the infection control protocol is not followed while using ventilator in ICU, the patient may have problems like ventilator -ssociated pneumonia, which will directly increase his stagnation. On the contrary, if caution is taken, then the same patient can return home soon.

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The problem of long stagnation is not limited to only one person. When a patient's discharge is late, the care of the next patient admitted to the same bed is also delayed. Especially in departments with cancer or serious diseases, where every bed is priced, this problem becomes even more serious. Workload also increases on nurses and doctors, as they have to spend more time and resources than expected on the same patient. Due to this, the overall efficiency of the hospital decreases. That is, infection control is not only the means of saving the patient, but also the key to keeping the entire functioning of the hospital smooth.

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If we look at the economic point of view, the effect of increased stagnation due to infection becomes even more clear. The patient's family is forced to bear additional expenses and the hospital also has to provide additional service of medicines, testings and staff. At the same time, insurance companies and health policies also express concern about long -standing cases. Conversely, when the infection control is applied correctly, the patient goes healthy on time, reduces the expenditure and the image of the hospital also improves.

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As a conclusion, it can be said that infection control and length of stay are deeply connected to each other. Control of infection not only provides safe and quality care to the patient, but also ensures correct use of hospital efficiency and resources. This is the reason that in today's modern medicine, transition control is not only a process, but a culture. When this culture is adopted in the entire hospital, the patient quickly returns home and the hospital is also better fulfilled its responsibility towards the society.

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