Regulations Governing Inspection and Implementation of Infection Control Measures in Medical Care Institutions Article 6

Medical care institutions shall establish management mechanisms over matters concerning the surveillance, review, audit of antibiotics use and sensitivity test of the antibiotics. Specialist physicians trained in infection medicine or infection control physicians shall be responsible for application of the mechanism. They shall be assisted by pharmacists, clinical laboratory technologists and other physicians.The amount of antibiotics use and the prevalence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria shall be periodically reported to the Committee, and be reported in accordance with regulations established by the competent authorities. For occurrence of unreasonable use of antibiotics and unusual rate of antibiotic-resistance, improvement plans shall be developed, results should be followed-up and reported regularly to the Committee.