The role of medical records in infection control.

The concept of "infection" has been well known to the medical world ever since an interest began to be taken in medicine. Infection has taken many hundreds of thousands of lives, and even today it is a very serious threat for human beings. Hospital, or nosocomial infections (NCI) are a major health problem in every medical institution in the world. In the light of the seriousness of the problem, this paper is to demonstrate how medical records can play an important role in effective alerting and infection control programmes before an outbreak turns into an epidemic.