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Laura Cowell 1, John Williams 1 1 Valpak (aust) Pty Ltd, NSW, Australia   Background: The increasing drive towards improving infection control and reducing hospital acquired infections (HAIs) in the clinical environment has led to the development of complex and rigorous procedures, and the use of...

Md Abu Choudhury 1,2,3,4, Hanna Sidjabat 4, Irani Rathnayake 5, Nicole Gavin 1,2,6, Raymond Chan 1,2,5,6, Shahera Banu 5, Flavia Huygens 5, David Paterson 4, Claire Rickard 1,2,6, David McMillan 2,3 1 NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence in Nursing (NCREN), Menzies Health Institute Queensland, Griffith University, Brisbane, QLD, Australia 2 Alliance for Vascular Access Teaching and Research, Griffith University, Brisbane, QLD, Australia 3 Inflammation and Healing Research Cluster, School of Health and Sports Sciences, University...

Kathryn Catterick 1  1 Infection Prevention Control Manager, Calvary South Tasmania, Bagdad, TAS, Australia   Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) is a discipline dominated with quantitative data; rates for hand hygiene compliance and health care acquired infections, biostatistics, epidemiological frequencies and patterns of public health events. In...

Khalid Johani 1, Danya Abualsaud 2, Honghua Hu 1, Karen Vickery 1 1 Macquarie University, Macquarie Park, NSW, Australia 2 Molecular Laboratory, Medical Microbiology, King Fahad Armed Forces Hospital, Jeedah, Saudi Arabia   Healthcare associated infections are a significant burden on health service providers, in terms of cost, morbidity and mortality. Organisms causing these infections can be sourced...

Trent Yarwood 1 1 Infectious Diseases Physician, Cairns And Hinterland Hospital And Health Service, Cairns, QLD, Australia   Introduction Infection prevention and antimicrobial stewardship activities generate a large amount of data – rates of hand hygiene, isolation of multiresistant organisms and information about quantity and...

Elizabeth Gillespie 1, Lama Tabbara 1, Carmel Scott 1, Anita Lovegrove 1, Despina Kotsanas 1, Rhonda Stuart 1 1 Monash Health, Melbourne, VIC, Australia     Background In 2013, an outbreak of van B vancomycin resistant enterococcus (VRE) involved the colonisation of 44 babies across the multisite neonatal service. Following that outbreak, we implemented a novel...

Katherine Shepherd 1  1 Research/Data Coordinator, Monash Health, 135 David St Dandenong, VIC, Australia   Introduction ICU patients are at higher risk of becoming colonised or infected with antibiotic resistant micro-organisms such as Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus (MRSA) and Vancomycin Resistant Enterococcus (VRE). Transmission-based contact precautions and correct...

Kate O’Donaghue 1, Jane Tomlinson 1, Sue Scott 1, Rachel Holly 1, Kareena Johnson 1, Freya Tan 1, Bernadette Twomey 1 1 Royal Children’s Hospital, Parkville, VIC, Australia   Introduction A government funded healthcare worker influenza vaccination program has been implemented for many years in Victorian public hospitals and data has been collected since 2005. The Department of...

Sue Flockhart 1, Catrice Grahame 2, Allison Hodge 3 1 Ballarat Health Services, Redan, VIC, Australia 2 Ballarat Health Services, Miners Rest, VIC, Australia 3 Ballarat Health Services, Ballarat North, VIC, Australia   Introduction: The introduction of the National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards in 2012, and an escalating number of isolation room...

Alison Farrington 1, Michelle Allen 1, Lisa Hall 1, Brett Mitchell 2  On behalf of the REACH study 1 Queensland University Of Technology, Kelvin Grove, QLD, Australia 2 Avondale College of Higher Education, Wahroonga, NSW, Australia   Background The Researching Effective Approaches to Cleaning in Hospitals (REACH) study is a partnership project funded by the National...