[The characteristics of the epidemic process of hospital infections in maternity hospitals influenced by an operational management system].

As shown in this investigation, the introduction of the algorithmic system of the control of the epidemiological process of hospital infections (HI) in maternity hospitals makes it possible to reduce HI-induced morbidity and mortality rates more than by half, as well as to alter their nosological and age structures, without additional economic expenditures and under the existing material conditions of maternity hospitals. Such success is achieved by the observation of infection precursors indicating the activation of the mechanisms of the transmission of Staphylococcus, Escherichia and Klebsiella infections and the risk factors (preconditions) facilitating this activation with the immediate involvement of all relevant specialists into action at the stage when an increase in the contamination of newborns and puerperal women is noted and not as late as at the stage of morbidity and mortality.