Clinical management of infectious diseases | ||
8 | Meeting the challenge of emerging pathogens in children with cystic fibrosis Ms Janet Wallace |
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9 | To Clean or not to Clean: VRE we all need to take notice! Dr Margaret Broom |
Disease epidemiology | ||
10 | Meningococcal Y Arthritis in a Child & the Importance of Meningococcal Disease Surveillance Dr Claudia O’rourke |
Education and professional development | ||
11 | A review on the effectiveness of multimodal infection control programmes in the reduction of bacterial contamination in residential care home for elderly persons with nasogastric tube feeding Ms Sukki Ho |
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12 | Hotel services education – a framework to inspire good practice Ms Suzanne Alexander |
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13 | The Journey From Novice To Infection Control Person Ms Fiona Hamilton |
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Hand hygiene | ||
16 | One hand in your pocket enhancing hand hygiene auditing: A pocket book for auditors Mr Brendon Heley |
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17 | Hand Hygiene – relaying the message at five hospitals in the South Western Sydney Local Health District in 2017 Miss Siu Mee Janet Li |
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18 | Clean Hands = Best Care; Evaluation, redesign and relaunching of a regional healthcare facility hand hygiene program. Ms Penelope Radalj |
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19 | Hand Hygiene in the Laboratory: attitudes, beliefs and compliance Mrs Sarah Foster |
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Health services, economics, evaluating infection control | ||
20 | Transmission of dry surface biofilm (DSB) by and through cotton bed sheets. Dr Durdana Chowdhury |
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21 | Teaching old dogs new tricks: a program to improve staff immunisation rates Mrs Penelope Guerra |
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22 | Variation in hospital cleaning practice and process in Australian hospitals: a structured mapping exercise Alison Farrington |
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Individual based practice change: behaviour change and human factors | ||
23 | “Well that doesn’t sound right!” (A story about a post-vaccination reaction) Ms Debra Lee |
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24 | Choice Architecture: Transmission-Based Precautions for the 21st Century Mr Paul Simpson |
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25 | Do you know what they are doing with povidone-iodine in your operating theatre? Ms Joe-anne Bendall |
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Outbreaks and outbreak management | ||
41 | Adoption of a Tertiary Hospital MRSA Outbreak Management Algorithm for Effective Containment of an EMRSA-15 (ST22-IV) Cluster in a Rehabilitation Ward Ms Rosie Lee |
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42 | Down the sink: the local experience of a Burkholderia cenocepacia outbreak at the Canberra Hospital Dr Heather Wilson |
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43 | An outbreak of multidrug resistant organisms in a neonatal intensive care unit in Malaysia A/Prof Sasheela Ponnampalavanar |
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44 | Vancomycin Resistant Enterococcus in the Neonatal Intensive Care and Special Care Nursery Dr Ming Chen |
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Reprocessing and sterilizing services | ||
45 | Establishment of penetration time on medical device product families based on ISO 17665-3 during performance qualification of steam sterilization Mr Roel Beltran Castillo |
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46 | To glove, or not to glove, that is the question. A/Prof Karen Vickery |
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47 | The development and implementation of an AS/NZS 4187:2014 audit tool across regional Victoria Mrs Lesley Lewis |
Systems based practice change: innovation, improvement science and quality improvement | ||
48 | A case study: Utilization of ATP bioluminescence assay in monitoring medical device cleaning process, environment and hand hygiene in CSSD Mr Roel Beltran Castillo |
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49 | Standard Precautions; Doing the right thing for everyone Mrs Helen Newman |
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50 | Setting the Standard: A collaborative approach to improving the reprocessing of Transesophageal Echocardiogram Probes Ms Julie Rieck |
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