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Research Trends on Home Infection Control from Nursing Domestic Literature 2007-2014

Hikari SHIMA¹⁾, Atsuko TOKUSHIGE²⁾, Keiko YOKOJIMA²⁾ and Kaoru KUYAMA²⁾
¹⁾Master Course of Former Mukogawa Women's University Graduate School of Nursing, ²⁾Mukogawa Women's University Graduate School of Nursing

The 2007 CDC guidelines changed the term "nosocomial infection" to "healthcare associated infection," recognizing the increased importance of infection control at home and in care facilities. Also, in the medical law revised in the same year, although a nosocomial infection management structure was implemented, adoption was not carried out in homes. Therefore, in this research, we examined the trend of research on home infection control in nursing domestic literature and decided on future topics. Between 2007 and 2014, using the Medicine Central Journal and CiNii, keyword searches for "home" and "infection management,""infection prevention,""infection control," and "infection measures." Word combinations were performed, along with a theme search in the thesaurus using "at home" and "infection control" word combinations. From the extracted literature, 33 papers, excluding reviews and commentaries, conference proceedings were selected with consideration of the publication year, the number of publications, research subjects, data collection methods, and research contents. The number of papers was one to eight per year, with eight in 2009 (24.2%) being the highest, and the research subjects were 27.7% "home care patients." The data collection method was 48.6% "questionnaire survey," and 75.8% "observational study." The research topics are "fundamental techniques of infection control,""medical treatment infection control," and "Organizational infection control." In the future, it will be necessary to increase this research and the number of topics.

Key words：home, infection control, review of literature

e-mail: tokusige＠mukogawa-u.ac.jp

Received: June 4, 2018
Accepted: March 12, 2019

34 (3)：190─205,2019