The ability to effectively control hospital-acquired infections is essential to the security of patients and the quality of care in the hospital environment. In fact, the control of such infections is the best indicator of the quality of care in any given hospital. The hospital has been and always will be an environment vulnerable to infections.

Whereas three hundred years ago, they spoke of “hospital fever”, or “ we now speak of nosocomial infection.

In order to efficiently control infection risk in the hospital environment, a detailed plan is required to identify, analyse and reduce the risk of infection.
This necessitates a broad approach based on information sharing among all health care professional involved in the prevention of hospital-acquired infections.

Read more: article in the Lancet

Dr Eytan Ellenberg

Public Health Physician - Master Degree in “Risk Management in the Hospital Environment” from L’École Centrale de Paris – Bachelor in “Communication, Technology and Power” from The Political Sciences Faculty at Paris 1 University Pantheon Sorbonne.
Presently studying for a PHD in Language Sciences at the University of Paris III under the supervision of Professor Loïc Depecker.
Dr Eytan Ellenberg is also Medical Consultant for a Communication and Public Relation Agency.

Other Publications
“Danger, hospital” – Armand Collin (2005)

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