Abstract: Nocosomial infections are associated with the treatment of patients and their contact with medical institutions. There are many potential causes and risk factors that could contribute to an infection. Some infections cannot be avoided. It is important to effectively detect, record, and monitor infections. This allows us to draw conclusions about the incidence of infections in hospitals and individual wards. Monitoring infections shows, inter alia, the effectiveness of the work of the infection control team, their relationship to the consumption of antibiotics, the number of microbiological tests performed, expenditures on hospital hygiene, and the type of drug resistance in microorganisms. By monitoring infections, trends in reoperations due to infections and deaths caused directly by nocosomial infections can be observed. Infection monitoring allows you to calculate the duration of prolonged hospitalization and the costs of prolonged hospitalization for nocosomial infections, and allows for action planning to further improve the quality of care and reduce the number of nocosomial infections.

Key words: effects of infection monitoring, monitoring of nocosomialinfections, recording of infections