Month: August 2016

Peter Teska 1 1 Diversey Care – Sealed Air Corp   We will review a series of studies that have examined the role of the environment in causing HAIs so the audience can determine how this information should be applied to their own...

Dr Peta-Anne Zimmerman RN CICP1, 2, 3   1 Griffith Graduate Infection Prevention and Control Program, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Griffith University 2 Gold Coast Hospital and Health Service, 3 Menzies Health Institute QLD Parklands Drive, Southport, QLD 4215,...

Paul Mcnamara 1 1 Cairns Hospital, 402/143 Abbott Street, Cairns, QLD, Australia   Communication is an inherent part of being a health professional. Over time we have our adapted to the communication technologies available to us: telephones, fax machines, emails and videoconferencing. Yet, for some of us,...

Sonia Koning1,2, Noleen Bennett1,3   1 National Centre for Antimicrobial Stewardship, Doherty Institute 792 Elizabeth St Melbourne, VIC, 3000 2 Eastern Health, Nelson Road Box Hill, VIC, 3128, sonia.koning@easternhealth.org.au 3 Victorian Healthcare Associated Infection Surveillance System Coordinating Centre, Doherty Institute...

Bennett N, RN, MPH, PhD1, Johnson SA, BSc, MPH1, Smith M, RN2, Worth LJ, MBBS, FRACP, Grad Dip Epi, PhD1,3   1 Victorian Healthcare Associated Infection Surveillance System (VICNISS) Coordinating Centre, Elizabeth St, Melbourne, Victoria, 3000 Noleen.Bennett@mh.org.au. 2 Department of Health, Grampians Region, 21...

Nigel Barr 1 1 University of the Sunshine Coast (USC), School of Nursing, Midwifery and Paramedicine.   Introduction Australian paramedic-led healthcare occurs in a diverse range of community settings and is unscheduled in nature, which presents challenges for compliance with recommended infection prevention...

Dr Kudzai Kanhutu1, Prof Bev Biggs2, 1 Victorian Infectious Diseases Service, Royal Melbourne Hospital  Melbourne VIC 3000 2 University of Melbourne Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, Melbourne VIC 300   The scale and scope of the current global...

A/Prof Justin Denholm 1 1 Victorian Tuberculosis Program   Tuberculosis incidence varies significantly across the Asia-Pacific Region, with Papua New Guinea reporting amongst the highest rates and burden of disease in the Pacific. While total disease burden is a significant issue for Papua New...

Dr Jennie Wilson, Associate Professor, University of West London   It is widely recognised that surveillance plays a key role in preventing healthcare associated infections and many local and National surveillance programmes have developed in recent decades.  The experience of...

Dr Jennie Wilson, Associate Professor, University of West London   The evidence based medicine movement emerged in the 1980s when the randomised controlled trial became acknowledged as the gold standard for comparing the efficacy of treatments and critical summaries of...