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  • Variation in health care-associated infection surveillance practices in Australia

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    Author(s)
    Russo, Philip
    C. Cheng, Allen
    Richards, Michael
    Graves, Nicholas
    Hall, Lisa
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    Russo, Philip L.
    Year published
    2015
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    Abstract
    In the absence of a national health care-associated infection surveillance program in Australia, differences between existing state-based programs were explored using an online survey. Only 51% of respondents who undertake surveillance have been trained, fewer than half perform surgical site infection surveillance prospectively, and only 41% indicated they risk adjust surgical site infection data. Widespread variation of surveillance methods highlights future challenges when considering the development and implementation of a national program in Australia.In the absence of a national health care-associated infection surveillance program in Australia, differences between existing state-based programs were explored using an online survey. Only 51% of respondents who undertake surveillance have been trained, fewer than half perform surgical site infection surveillance prospectively, and only 41% indicated they risk adjust surgical site infection data. Widespread variation of surveillance methods highlights future challenges when considering the development and implementation of a national program in Australia.
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    Journal Title
    American Journal of Infection Control
    Volume
    43
    Issue
    7
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2015.02.029
    Copyright Statement
    © 2015 The Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology Inc. This is the author-manuscript version of this paper. Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal's website for access to the definitive, published version.
    Subject
    Health Information Systems (incl. Surveillance)
    Nursing
    Public Health and Health Services
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/125037
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