Author/Authors :
Mohseny، Maryam نويسنده MD, Assistant Professor of Preventive and Community Medicine, Department of Health and Social Medicine, Medical School’ Shahid Beheshti University Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. , , Sayarifard، Azadeh نويسنده Community and Preventive Medicine Specialist, Center for Academic and Health Policy, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran ,
Abstract :
In recent years, new buildings have been built and equipped which are called “hospital” and provides diagnostic and
therapeutic services to patients but sometimes these measures inevitably leads to the acquisition of nosocomial
infection in patients and may even lead to the death of patients. The history of nosocomial infection refers to the
many year ago. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, poor women were gone to maternities for parturition but
the death rate for them was so high so that in 1850 AD Thomas Lightfoot wrote in London Medicinal Journal that:
"Hospital are gates leading to the death of women".
Surveillance for nosocomial infections Florence was established the first Surveillance for nosocomial infections
system by the nurses (Deaths reported by nurses). William Farr also showed a higher incidence of mortality due to
communicable diseases among the nurses and the hospital Personnel’s.
