[…] and promoting the health of all Ontarians and reducing inequities in health. Public Health Ontario links public health practitioners, frontline health workers a nd researchers to the best scientific intelligence and knowledge from around the world. Public Health Ontario provides expert scientific and technical support to government, local public health units and health care providers relating to the following: com municable and infectious...
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[…] In BC Health Authorities BC Ministry of Health First published March 2007 Reviewed & revised December 2011 THIS DOCUMENT IS INTE NDED TO DESCRIBE BEST PRACTICES HEALTH CARE SETTINGS ARE ENCOURAGED TO WO RK TOWARDS THESE BES T PRACTICES IN AN EFFORT TO IMPROVE QU ALITY OF CARE . Best Practice Guidelines for Cleaning, Disinfection and Sterilization in Health Authorities - December 2011 | Page 2 of...
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[…] of viral respiratory tract infections to HCWs and patients in healthcare settings. This has led to the introduction of the concept of re spiratory hygiene and cough etiquette (263) . 32 In March 2003, the world was alerted to the appearance in Asia of a severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) of unknown etiology affecting large numbers of HCWs. Within weeks a novel coronavirus, now...
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[…] (SIS) , European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) , National Institute for Health and Care Excellence ( NICE), Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) , World Health Organization ( WHO), Early Recovery After Surgery (ERAS) and relevant literature research. These recommendations also represent the consensus of the experts in Canada that structure the...
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[…] would be included as a healthcare pro vider. Patient: Any patient, client or resident receiving care within a healthcare setting. 1. Background Hand hygiene is one of the five key initiatives set out by the World Alliance for Patient Safetyâs Global Patient Safety Challenge. The World Health Organization ( WHO ) states : âThe goal of Clean Care is Safer Care is to ensure...
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[…] would be included as a healthcare pro vider. Patient: Any patient, client or resident receiving care within a healthcare setting. 1. Background Hand hygiene is one of the five key initiatives set out by the World Alliance for Patient Safetyâs Global Patient Safety Challenge. The World Health Organization ( WHO ) states : âThe goal of Clean Care is Safer Care is to ensure...
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[…] a focus on the rates over the last five years , from 201 4/15 to 201 8/19. Recent emergenc e of a new ly-identified species of yeast, Candida auris , has raised public health concerns worldwide due to its ability to cause nosocomial outbreaks in healthcare settings, its innate and emerging resistance to multiple antifungal drugs , and its resilience in the face...
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[…] on healthcare facilit ies . The p rovincial CPO surveillance program was expanded in 2017/18 to include cases identified in the community. Encounter with the healthcare system in CPO -endemic re gion s of the world is a major risk factor associated with CPO cases identified in BC. This may also contribute to the variations in CPO cases identified among HA s. Although...
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[…] be. Preparation: Gather materials needed for costume. Allow sufficient time to create your costume as it may take longer than you anticipate. Details: Celebrate =nfection Control Week this year by showing your creativity to the world through dressing up as your favorite infectious bug! The best part of this activity is that the costume you wear during =nfection Control Week can double as your :allowe’en...
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[…] of British Columbia PEP Post Exposure Prophylaxis OSHA Occupational Safety and Health Administration RRA Rural and Remote Areas SARS Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome SEN Safety Engineered Needle TB Tuberculosis UBC University of British Columbia WHO World Health Organization WHR World Health Report 1 Workshop Overview This synthesis report stems from a one-day pre-conference workshop, "Occupational Health Services for Health Care Workers in Rural/Remote Areas and...
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[…] now increasingly being employed in scientific research. In this issue, read how Big Data from national pharmaceutical sales can help track influenza and other infectious diseases, how scanning 3,000 news items daily from around the world in close to real-time can help identify emerging infectious diseases, how genome sequencing has increased our detective capacity to track the origins of outbreaks and how the analysis...
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[…] and patient information collected by the laboratory for the provincial surveillance report. Hand Cleaning Compliance The methodology for the provincial hand hygiene audits was adapted by the Provincial Hand Hygiene Working Group (PHHWG) from the World Health Organization ’s guide lines for hand hygiene , which describe direct observation as the gold standard methodology for assessing hand hygiene (12 ). During...
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[…] IPD Invasive pneumococcal disease IV Intravenous LFZ Laboratory for Foodborne Zoonoses MDR Multi-drug-resistant MDR-TB Multi-drug-resistant Tuberculosis MRSA Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus NML National Microbiology Laboratory NNRTI Non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor NRTI Nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor OIE World Organisation for Animal Health PCU Population Correction Unit PCV7 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine PCV13 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine SSTI Skin and soft tissue infection TB Tuberculosis CANADIAN ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMREPORT...
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[…] of year, whereas areas closer to the equator (such as Hong Kong ) can see outbreaks of influenza at any time of year. Nevertheless, the burden of influenza is similar in every country around the world. I n Canada each year , nearly five million people are infected with influenza, 50, 000 are hospitalized, and about 2, 500 will die from influenza 10,11 . This...
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[…] a nd are considered common in healthcare settings there. KPC -producing organisms were first identified in the United States , and are now regularly found in many countries. They have now spread widely around the world ( 14). In BC, the first CPO -harboring ba cteria were initially introduced into the healthcare system as early as 2008 by travelers returning from endemic...
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[…] Notices/posters 16% Directly from my manager/ward supervisor/ etc. 14% Your health authority intranet/blog 13% Directly from my Infection Control Practitioner 11% Other 8% Social media (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn) 6% "Other" included: IPAC BC/IPAC -Canada; Google news; Link Nurse Program; manuals and guidelines . PICNet Response: We’re glad to hear that our monthly e-newsletters and other emails suit your needs. We will continue to send these...
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[…] all Ontarians and reducing inequities in health. As a hub organization, Public Health Ontario links pu blic health practitioners, front -line health workers and researchers to the best scientific intelligence and knowledge from around the world. Public Health Ontario provides expert scientific and technical support relating to communicable and infectious dis eases; surveillance and epidemiology; health promotion, chronic disease and injury prevention; environmental and occupational health;...
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[…] all Ontarians and reducing inequities in health. As a hub organization, Public Health Ontario links pu blic health practitioners, front -line health workers and researchers to the best scientific intelligence and knowledge from around the world. Public Health Ontario provides expert scientific and technical support relating to communicable and infectious dis eases; surveillance and epidemiology; health promotion, chronic disease and injury prevention; environmental and occupational health;...
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[…] University, Kingston, On tario Basic Infection Control 37 University of British Columbia Infection Control Certificate Program Courses Three online and one clinical infection control clerkship. The student may attend anothe r institution anywhere in the world for the clerkship with the permi ssion of the instructors. These three-credit university courses may be taken as stand-alone courses or used towards a four-course University...
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