Nosocomial Infection Control

After the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) outbreak in 2003, Taiwan CDC had established a dedicated nosocomial infection control unit to fulfill the purposes of protecting patients and health care workers, reducing nosocomial infection, and improving infection control mechanisms. This unit has constituted several nosocomial infection control tasks, including the program of annual inspection of nosocomial infection control measures in hospitals, not only based on the reference materials published by WHO and US CDC but also in accordance with the characteristics of the local environment and health care facilities.