Abstract
Outbreaks of virus infections frequently occur in wards for children (patients) with severe motor and intellectual disabilities. As most patients are unlikely to report subjective symptoms, it is difficult to detect infections at an early stage, resulting in serious outcomes or delayed isolation. Moreover, infections spread rapidly through activities or tasks of multidisciplinary professionals which require direct contact with patients. In order to determine limitations of various activities or tasks immediately after outbreaks and notify the faculty of the decisions, we prepared “Direction Confirmation Form for Nosocomial Infection Control” in 2012 and have been utilizing this form since then. Our ICT (Infection Control Team) and the hospital director worked together on this form and promptly determined three limitation levels for each item, as “direction by the hospital director” and notified the entire faculty of this direction via documents and electric charts. This confirmation form was utilized for a total of 5 times in 5 years. Hence, we could promptly assess all necessary items and immediately notify the faculty of all professions of the “direction of the hospital director”. Furthermore, this enabled us to spend more time and efforts in the clinical setting, and to promptly and appropriately deal with the patients. We believe that this confirmation form is a very useful tool which can be easily understood by multidisciplinary professionals so that they can cope with outbreaks of infections through prompt and organizational collaborations.
