In the health sector, possibly emerging hospital audits that come with new dimensions, manifesting its importance within hospitals. It is a systematic and formal evaluation of an activity that is developed by a professional, subsidizing quality care presented by encouraging clients, families and professionals. When applying the control technique, identifying and solving problems, we can guarantee quality health administration (ALMEIDA, Santi 2008).
When the review service is implemented in the hospital, she will join the other departments, and this interconnection will allow the success of this work (RAM, 2009; SANTOS, 2008).
HOSPITAL INFECTION CONTROL COMMITTEE
The history of the hospital infection is distributed in the medical history that began with the struggle for survival and also a world clearly ruled by powerful and hidden forces. For centuries humanity has used archaic medicine, however, with demonstration and observation, especially in Greece, India and China, knowledge was scientific paper exposing medicine to establish itself as a science (OLIVEIRA, 2005; CORREA, 2008).
- Only in 460 BC. that Hippocrates recorded the biological phenomena, collaborated in order to take care of the wounded, stressed the importance of washing hands before surgery, the use of boiled water and wine for cleaning wounds.
- Following Hippocrates, Galen, a Greek physician, reported the cure without the formation of secretions in the wounds of gladiators after washing with wine and linen yarn (FONTANA, 2006).
- From the first half of the nineteenth century the infection began to be concentrated by health professionals. Reports showing in 1847, the physician Ignaz Semmelweis, Phiipp in Vienna, recommended hand washing with chlorinated water examiner all, before touching the mother.
- With this measure it can drastically reduce the maternal mortality rate of puerperal fever (FONTANA, 2006; TURRINI, 2004).
However, the onset of concerns with hospital-acquired infections in Brazil followed the process of rapid industrialization that began in Juscelino Kubischek’s government and with the occurrence of penicillin-resistant staph outbreaks, reports from other countries with medicine. technologically advanced (ANVISA, 2000).
For effective hospital infection control you need to stay in the hospital
The 80’s was the most respectable for the occasion for the development of hospital infection control in Brazil. Started a health awareness for the importance of the subject and form several control committees in hospitals.
In this context, the National Health Surveillance Agency (ANVISA) is responsible for coordinating the National Hospital Infection Control Program (PNCIH). The PNCIH commands the national actions for the prevention and control of nosocomial infections, which establishes criteria, parameters and methods for the development of activities (AGU, 2009; GIUNTA, 2006).
The foundation of these programs is very important because Hospital infections commonly work together to increase the length of the hospital patient and costly resources for its treatment, allow legal action against the practitioner and the hospital, and surrounding the organization’s image of in front of consumers (GEORGE, 2006; GIUNTA, 2006).
motivated professionals, working in a team, each within the scope of their duties, respecting frequent updating and with the ability to self-evaluate (BRITO, 2006).