2017 ePosters

Clinical management of infectious diseases
Meeting the challenge of emerging pathogens in children with cystic fibrosis Janet Wallace ePoster PDF
To Clean or not to Clean: VRE we all need to take notice! Margaret Broom ePoster PDF
Hand hygiene
Hand Hygiene in the Laboratory: attitudes, beliefs and compliance Sarah Foster ePoster PDF
HAI Surveillance
‘It’s all about technique’: Monitoring compliance with standardised aseptic technique practices at a large Australian health service Stephanie Spilsbury ePoster PDF
Health services, economics, evaluating infection control
Variation in hospital cleaning practice and process in Australian hospitals: a structured mapping exercise Alison Farrington ePoster PDF
Teaching old dogs new tricks: a program to improve staff immunisation rate Penelope Guerra ePoster PDF
Infection control measures and strategies
Point Prevalence Surveys of Healthcare-Associated Infection (HAI) in Southwest Finland Tiina Kurvinen ePoster PDF
Evaluation of critical care nurse’s adherence to the principles of infection prevention and control when providing respiratory care to ventilated ICU patients Stephane Bouchoucha ePoster PDF
Assessing an innovative temporary isolation room: A functional and infection control assessment Brett Mitchell ePoster PDF
Clinical trial of CATH TAG: an innovative new device to reduce infections associate with indwelling medical devices Wendy Beckingham ePoster PDF
Invasive devices
Protocol paper: Reducing catheter associated urinary tract infections in hospital, a multi-site randomised controlled study Victoria Gregory ePoster PDF
Study protocol for reducing urinary catheter use: a randomised controlled study Hannah Rosebrock ePoster PDF
Excellent inter-rater agreement on the assessment of a peripherally inserted central catheter insertion site between nurses and patients using the PICC-SAT Emily Larsen ePoster PDF
Outbreaks and outbreak management
Adoption of a Tertiary Hospital MRSA Outbreak Management Algorithm for Effective Containment of an EMRSA-15 (ST22-IV) Cluster in a Rehabilitation Ward Rosie Lee ePoster PDF
Down the sink: the local experience of a Burkholderia cenocepacia outbreak at the Canberra Hospital Heather Wilson ePoster PDF
Vancomycin Resistant Enterococcus in the Neonatal Intensive Care and Special Care Nursery Ming Chen ePoster PDF
An outbreak of multidrug resistant organisms in a neonatal intensive care unit in Malaysia Sasheela
Ponnampalavanar
ePoster PDF
Reprocessing and sterilizing services
Establishment of penetration time on medical device product families based on ISO 17665-3 during performance qualification of steam sterilization Roel Beltran Castillo ePoster PDF
Specialised settings: the environment and the resources available/permissible
Challenges of a new build Susan Harper ePoster PDF
Systems based practice change: innovation, improvement science and quality improvement
A case study: Utilization of ATP bioluminescence assay in monitoring medical device cleaning process, environment and hand hygiene in CSSD Roel Beltran Castillo ePoster PDF

 

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