• Improvement of hospital environmental cleaning and disinfection practices following an eight-month outbreak

      Date: July 23rd, 2020

      Time: 10:30 am PST

      Speaker: Corey Weisgerber and Terrence Shaw, Regina General Hospital, Saskatchewan

      Objectives:

      – Provide background information on an 8-month VRE outbreak in 2013, in a medical inpatient unit at Regina General Hospital
      – Discuss the extent of contamination and methodology of environmental sampling during this period
      – Show the analysis of existing protocols and practices, and where key areas were found for improvement
      – Present outcomes and learnings from the outbreak, including increased patient safety and satisfaction

       

       

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