Ana Suto 1, Louise Hobbs 1 1The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Parville, VIC, Australia Introduction Melbourne Health (MH) embarked on a process to reduce occupational exposures due to continually not meeting the Victorian Blood Exposure Surveillance (ViBES) (2010) aggregate rate of 0.52 per 1000 occupied bed...
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Maree Sommerville 1, Annaliese VanDiemen 2 1 Infection Control Manager, Mercy Hospital For Women, Heidelberg, VIC, Australia 2 Senior Public Health Officer, Department of Health & Human Services, Melbourne, VIC, Australia Introduction: Measles in a highly infectious viral illness which causes high rates of disease in non-immune contacts of cases. The sequelae...
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Joanna Harris 1, Beth Bint 1, Julie Rieck 1, Megan Brown 1 1 Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District, Wollongong, NSW, Australia Introduction Modern healthcare is characterised by the mantra of patient-centred care, however the management of multi-resistant organisms (MRO) risks becoming MRO-centred care. The controls implemented...
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Dr Holly Seale Senior Lecturer, University Of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia Introduction: Over the last decade, there has been a slow shift towards the more active engagement of patients and families in preventing healthcare associated infections (HCAI). This pilot study aimed to...
- July 29, 2016