Jan Gralton Clinical Excellence Commission Clinical Excellence Commission, Locked Bag 8, Haymarket, NSW, 1240. CEC-HAI@health.nsw.gov.au Urinary catheterisation is a common clinical procedure. Despite the benefits of catheter use, there is always a risk that a patient with a catheter...
- August 25, 2016
Deborough Macbeth 1, 2 1 Gold Coast Hospital and Health Service, Southport, Qld 4215, Australia. Deborough.Macbeth@health.qld.gov.au 2 Griffith University, Gold Coast, Qld. Australia. The Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care recognises the pivotal role of the Infection...
- August 25, 2016
Deborah Friedman1 1 Department of Infectious Diseases, Barwon Health, Geelong, VIC, Australia The years 2015 to 2016 have been busy for infection control publications. This conference presentation will focus firstly on topics close to home including; contact isolation, enhanced...
- August 25, 2016
A/Professor Brett Mitchell 1, Professor Marilyn Cruikshank 2, Cathy Connor 3 1 Faculty of Nursing and Health and Director Lifestyle Research Centre, 185 Fox Valley Road, Wahroonga NSW 2076 Australia, Brett.Mitchell@avondale.edu.au 2 Director National HAI Program, Australian Commission on Safety and Quality...
- August 25, 2016
Caroline Marshall1,2,3 1 Royal Melbourne Hospital 2 Department of Medicine, University of Melbourne 3 Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity Outbreaks of healthcare associated pathogens occur on a regular basis. Recommendations exist on how to investigate and manage...
- August 25, 2016
Dr Becky Freeman1 1 School of Public Health, Sydney Medical School, Level 6 – The Hub, Charles Perkins Centre (D17), The University of Sydney, NSW 2006, becky.freeman@sydney.edu.au The influence of media on attitudes, beliefs, and behaviours is an established...
- August 25, 2016
Anthony Carr 1 1 NPS MedicineWise, PO Box 1147 Strawberry Hills, NSW,2012 Antibiotic resistance is one of the biggest threats to global health today. Using antibiotics for conditions where they have no impact such as on viruses like colds, contributes...
- August 25, 2016
Rhonda L Stuart Monash Infectious Diseases, Monash Health, Clayton Rd Clayton, 3168 Monash University National Centre for Antimicrobial Stewardship rhonda.stuart@monashhealth.org In Australia the number of people aged 85 and over is projected to quadruple from 0.4 to 1.8 million...
- August 25, 2016
Rhonda L Stuart Monash Infectious Diseases, Monash Health, Clayton Rd Clayton, 3168 Monash University National Centre for Antimicrobial Stewardship rhonda.stuart@monashhealth.org Recent reports from UK, Europe and the United States have described a small number of invasive infections with Mycobacterium...
- August 25, 2016
Philip L Russo1,2,3,4, Allen Cheng5,6, Brett G Mitchell4, Lisa Hall2 1 Deakin/Alfred Health Nursing Centre for Research, Deakin University, VIC 2 Institute of Health & Biomedical Innovation, School of Public Health and Social Work, Queensland University of Technology QLD...
- August 25, 2016