Table 1.
Hospitals’ roles and responsibilities in China for prevention and control of infectious diseases.
| Responsibility | Content of work | |
|---|---|---|
| Surveillance | • Diagnosis | ▪ Clinical diagnosis |
| ▪ Laboratory diagnosis | ||
| • Reporting | ▪ Statutory infectious disease (39 diseases in 3 categories) | |
| ▪ Related syndromes (including Influenza like illness, ILI, and Acute flaccid paralysis, AFP) | ||
| ▪ Epidemic outbreak (including hospital-acquired infections) | ||
| Treatment | • Clinic | ▪ Timeliness |
| ▪ Normative | ||
| • Inpatient | ▪ Timeliness | |
| ▪ Normative | ||
| Prevention and control |
• Disinfection | ▪ Air and environment |
| ▪ Surface of facilities | ||
| ▪ Medical devices | ||
| ▪ Items used by confirmed cases | ||
| ▪ Excrement, secretion, and vomit | ||
| ▪ Transit ambulance | ||
| • Pre-diagnosis and triage | ▪ Responsible departments | |
| ▪ Diagnostic criteria | ||
| ▪ Scope of subjects | ||
| • Isolation | ▪ Principles | |
| ▪ Measures | ||
| • Protection | ▪ Protective supplies | |
| ▪ Vaccination | ||
| • Medical waste | ▪ Disposal according to various categories | |
| Preventive services | • Screening | ▪ General screening |
| ▪ Selective screening | ||
| • Intervention | ▪ Vaccination | |
| ▪ Medication | ||
| • Health education | ▪ Characteristics of infectious disease | |
| ▪ Risk factors | ||