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2014/09/03

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Understanding_Health_Safety_Risks_for_BC_Outbound_Medical_Tourists_

[…] Journal, 204(10), 553- 554. 8. Leahy, A.L. (2008). Medical tourism: the impact of travel to foreign countries for healthcare. Surgeon, 6(5), 260-261. 9. CMA calls for national solution to medical tourism. (2007, February 7). CBC News. 10. Howze, K.S. (2007). Medical tourism symptom or cure? Georgia Law Review, 41, 1013-1052. 11. Garcia-Altes, A. (2005). The development of health tourism services. Annals of Tourism Research, 32(1),...

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2014/09/03

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CIPARS_Human_Antimicrobial_Use_Short_Report_2009_EN__2_

[…] Collaborating Centre for Drug Statistics Methodology guidelines. The DDD is the assumed average maintenance dose per day for a drug used for its main indication in adults. This statistical measure is used to standardize antimicrobial usage and allow international comparisons to be made. What’s new in the 2009 Report  More detailed tables and figures are provi ded for antimicrobial classes whose...

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2018/05/02

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Climate change and Infectious Diseases SLIDES

[…] new outbreaks in Texas, Florida, New York, Toronto Anopheles elsewhere causing malaria S Korea, southern Europe, S Africa Highland urban areas eg Nairobi Rural highland areas eg PNG Not in NZ….yet! 22 Impact of malaria Today: 50% world’s population exposed Impact of doubling of CO2: 60% exposed Other factors Land clearing Population movement Drug and pesticide resistance 23 Dengue Fever and Yellow fever Aedes...

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2018/03/21

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Respiratory Infection Outbreak Guidelines for Healthcare Facilities March 20

[…] C=cou gh F=Fever H=Headache ST= sore throat M=Myalgia N=Nausea V=Vomiting D=Diarrhea 45 Appendix 12 : Daily Update Outbreak Report for OPMT (example) Location: ______________________________________ Date: _______________________ Day _____ of Outbreak Number of ne w cases today - Patients/Residents/Clients: __________ Number of new cases today – HCPs: ___________ Date of symptom onset of last case: ___________ Number of patients/residents currently symptomatic (include new cases): ______ Number...

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2017/11/22

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PICNet Annual Surveillance Report 2016-2017

Annual surveillance report of healthcare- associated infections in BC health care facilities Fiscal Year 201 6/1 7 (April 1, 2016 to March 31, 2017 ) Prepared by: Provincial Infection Control Network of British Columbia (PICNet) October 2017 The Provincial Infection Control Network of British Columbia (PICNet) is a provincially supported professional collaborative that provides guidance and advice on healthcare -associated infection prevention and control <mark...

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2017/05/30

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Bedpan Management SLIDES

[…] 2 Belgium 8 Germany 1 Romania 3 Thailand 6 Brazil 2 Hong Kong 1 Russia 4 United Arab Emirates 1 Cameroon 1 Iceland 1 Saudi-Arabia 6 United Kingdom 2 Canada 22 Indonesia 3 Singapore 4 USA 5 Chile 3 Kosovo 1 South-Africa 3 Uruguay 3 China Republic 1 Malaysia 5 South-Korea 1 Vietnam 1 Congo 1 Mexico 5 Spain 2 Zimbabwe 1 Preliminary results Survey KNIP...

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2017/05/30

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Bedpan Management SLIDES

[…] 2 Belgium 8 Germany 1 Romania 3 Thailand 6 Brazil 2 Hong Kong 1 Russia 4 United Arab Emirates 1 Cameroon 1 Iceland 1 Saudi-Arabia 6 United Kingdom 2 Canada 22 Indonesia 3 Singapore 4 USA 5 Chile 3 Kosovo 1 South-Africa 3 Uruguay 3 China Republic 1 Malaysia 5 South-Korea 1 Vietnam 1 Congo 1 Mexico 5 Spain 2 Zimbabwe 1 Preliminary results Survey KNIP...

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2017/02/21

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Program for Exhibitors

[…] fluid fragmentation Dr. Lydia Bourouiba Esther and Harold E. Edgerton Assistant Professor, The Fluid Dynamics of Disease Transmission Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 12:00–1:00 Lunch Exhibitors 1:00–1:45 Fresh thinking needed or ELSE! Infection control practices in units with behavioral issues Barley Chironda MSc (c) RPN CIC Healthcare National Sales Director and Infection Control Specialist, Clorox Professional Products Company 1:45–1:50 Groovy Movement Joanne Archer,...

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2017/02/20

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Presenter Bios

[…] worked primarily in the area of communicable disease control, focusing on large outbreaks of measles, mumps, and pertussis. In 2012 she accepted an offer to become Medical Director of Fraser Health’s Infection Control program, and today leads a team of 50 practitioners and consultants, delivering infection control services at Fraser’s acute and residential sites. She also co-instructs a course in epidemiology...

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2014/09/02

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PICNet Newsletter May2013

[…] Provincial Health Services Authority PICNet May Newsletter Debugging Healthcare Together! PICNet communications - sign up to continue receiving! PICNet is cleaning up its contacts database, so if you'd like to continue to receive infection control news, requests to review documents, Webber notifications, etc., then make sure you update your settings by June 3, 2013. Everyone who does will be entered to win a Starbucks...

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2016/11/23

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Influenza

Development of universal flu shot: two articles

[…] vaccine From Science News Daily: A research group involving the universities of Lancaster, Aston and Complutense in Madrid has applied ground-breaking computational techniques to design the vaccine. The researchers have devised two universal vaccines:  a USA-specific vaccine with coverage of 95% of known US influenza strains, and  a universal vaccine with coverage of 88% of known flu strains globally. Dr...

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2016/10/25

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Rhinovirus vaccine research

Martin Moore, an associate professor at Emory University and a research scholar at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, has been working on developing a rhinovirus vaccine that has shown promising results in trials on macaques. The monkeys were able to produce antibodies against many types of rhinoviruses. Moore and his colleagues are now following up on those results with more research and hope to move soon to human trials....

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2014/08/29

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Other Organizations

Education Websites IPAC Canada’s Education Resources for Infection Control Professionals – IPAC Canada Conference content, online webinars, learning tools, and more. Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology – Online training courses, conference content, professional development tools, certification prep World Health Organization Teleclasses – Online training modules about infection prevention and control, public health, global health, and more. World Health Organization Global Infection...

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2016/07/14

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PICNet July 2016 Newsletter

[…] of program topics. If you would like to suggest any new/additional topics or speakers, you can email Joanne Archer. And don’t forget to save the date: the conference takes place March 9-10, 2017. Infection Control News There are several new stories on the PICNet news page, including that of Angus the C.difficile-hunting dog. PICNet Medical Co-Lead Dr. Elizabeth Bryce was...

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2016/07/13

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PublicHealthEngland_Guidance_Candida__auris

[…] Patel, Theresa Lamagni, Berit Muller -Pebody, Fiona Neely For queries relating to this document, please conta ct: PHE.candidaauris@nhs.net © Crown copyright 201 6 You may re -use this information (excluding logos) free of char ge in any format or medium, under the terms o f the Open Government Licence v3 .0. To view this licence, visit OGL or email psi@nationalarchives.gsi.gov.uk . Where we...

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2016/07/04

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Sharps Injury Prevention SLIDES

[…] an appropriate denominator? Does not accommodate the recent changes in patient "throughput" Grimmond T & Good L. EXPO-S.T.O.P.-2012: Year Two of a national survey of sharps injuries and mucocutaneous blood exposures among healthcare workers in USA hospitals. J Assoc Occ Hlth Prof 2015;35(2):52-57 Grimmond T & Good L. EXPO-S.T.O.P.-2015: Unpublished 16 Sharps Injuries SI)   2012 2015 SI/100 FTE 2.2 2.1 SI/100 Nurse...

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2016/01/27

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PICNet Conference Program

[…] get to there from here? Understanding transmission from whole genome sequencing. Dr. Linda Hoang Medical Microbiologist, BCCDC; Co -Director, PICNet 2:05 –2:10 Groovy Movement Joanne Archer, PICNet 2:10– 2:55 Human factors engineering and its role in infection prevention Dr. Elizabeth Bryce Medical Microbiolgist, Vancouver Coastal Health; Co -Director, PICNet 2:55 –3:25 Health Break Exhibitors 3:25–4:10 Ways of communicating with healthcare workers: the old, the...

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2016/01/06

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PICNet Annual Surveillance Report 2014-15

[…] patients ; 3) reporting performance back to the care units and to senior leaders, physicians, and managers across the health authorities , and to the public; 4) using a variety of communications such as posters, newsletters, and posting of results on units ; 5) identifying new initiatives and opportunities to improve the compliance before patient contact and to engage physicians more effecti...

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2015/10/14

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Social Media Teleclass SLIDES

[…] A recent report by the Pew Research Center highlights the growing use of SoMe in developing countries. In the U.S., 73% of Internet users use social networks. The report found that in 17 developing countries usage is as high as 88%, mainly Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn. Leveraging social media as part of an overall m and e-technology approach offers...

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2015/07/20

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GI Endoscope Disinfection to Sterilization SLIDES

[…] Rutala, Ph.D., M.P.H. Director, Hospital Epidemiology, Occupational Health and Safety Program, UNC Health Care; Research Professor of Medicine, Director, Statewide Program for Infection Control and Epidemiology, University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill, NC, USA Hosted by Prof. Jean-Yves Maillard University of Cardiff, UK www.webbertraining.com July 23, 2015 Gastrointestinal Endoscopes: A Need to Shift from Disinfection to Sterilization Review the CRE/MDR outbreaks associated with...

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