Healthcare Associated Infections (HAI) can easily qualify as the most important patient safety concerns in hospitals. To address the menace of HAI, infection control is kept as one of the main objectives, while designing any healthcare delivery structure, policies and processes. Almost all activities that are done within hospital has a bearing on infection control and there are a large number of studies that has resulted in various good practices for controlling infections. NABH has also dedicated a full chapter on Infection Control, while standards and objective elements under various other chapters also incorporates infection control aspects in it. A list of all infection control measures, grouped under appropriate heading is given below for hospitals to keep a check on. A. Facility and infrastructure for infection control a. Appropriate distance must be maintained between adjacent beds. Various standards such as ASHRAE, JCAHO, BSI recommends a minimum distance of
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