[Infection prevention and safe practice (referring to CDC guideline)]

Recent nosocomial infections, such as HCV and tuberculosis, have stimulated interest in infection control practices in health care setting. Therefore, Infection Control Doctors (ICDs) have already started to make best strategies for infection prevention and safe practice. However, many obstacles lie ahead of them, with the cost as the most important. It has been believed that it takes a lot of money for the improvement of infection control. But, this aspect has been changed completely by introduction of EBM because EBM can point out and quite unnecessary practices, resulting in saving money. CDC has been published many guidelines which is evidence based. Therefore, it might be best strategy to introduce CDC guideline into the infection control in Japanese hospitals.