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ARMed-HARMONY
Description
of work
This
work package will evaluate current infection control policies
and practices in the Mediterranean partner countries through the
use of structured questionnaires.
- Participants
will be requested to provide feedback on current knowledge of
hospital-acquired infection (HAI) surveillance and infection
control policies, personnel and practices in their individual
countries by means of a questionnaire.
- HARMONY
questionnaire tools will be adopted based, on the information
received, to
- describe
the current national guideline and policy development processes
in each country
- examine
the applicability of "bottom-up" produced central
line and urinary catheter guidelines
- explore
common documentation of certain types of information to
increase the potential for added value of surveillance of
antimicrobial resistance, device-related infection
- increase
the knowledge underpinning other activities e.g. typing
and organism databases
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develop a tabular approach to documenting the antimicrobial
resistant organism outbreak control guidelines in the participating
countries.
- evaluate
antibiotic policies and process control in the participating
countries.
- After
the questionnaires have been discussed and finalised, data will
be collected by month 25. and analysed. The results will be
presented to the participant countries and appropriate tools
for policy design will be finalised. A workshop on infection
prevention & control will be also be organised.
- Results,
guidelines and tools developed will be posted in the ARMed website
and data fed back to the appropriate healthcare workers
Hand
Hygiene Study Questionnaire
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