Infection Control Matters
By Brett Mitchell
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We are a group of professionals who work in the field of infectious disease and infection prevention and control. In this podcast series, we discuss new research and issues on the topic of infection prevention and control.
We will pick new papers of interest and will discuss them, often with an author of the paper who can give us some insights into the research that go beyond the written paper. We are unfunded and do not accept solicitations from companies or marketeers.
Authors will include nurses, doctors, academics, clinicians, administrators and leaders.
We should stress that all of our comments relate to our own opinions and that they do not necessarily reflect those institutions and employers that we relate to.
We welcome comment, suggestions and ideas. Please consider subscribing for updates and to find collections of topic specific podcasts at www.infectioncontrolmatters.com
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ESCMID Global 2026 – Selected Gems from the Poster Hall (Part 1)
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Jun 05, 2026 |
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Highlights from ESCMID 2026: Key Papers in Infection Control
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May 20, 2026 |
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ESCMID Global 2026: What Matters for Practice
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May 06, 2026 |
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Why Healthcare Cleaning Is Different: Reflections from Interclean 2026
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Apr 16, 2026 |
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Automated bloodstream infection surveillance - Measuring what matters?
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Apr 01, 2026 |
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Surfaces - High touch or high risk?
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Mar 18, 2026 |
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Do we feel that we are experts? Take two
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Feb 25, 2026 |
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Resourcing of hospital infection prevention and control programs
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Feb 11, 2026 |
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Hospital or Crime Scene? What Forensic Science Reveals About “Clean”
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Jan 28, 2026 |
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AMR at a National level - The 2025 ESPAUR Report
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Jan 14, 2026 |
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2025 Christmas Special
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Dec 17, 2025 |
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Unseen Reservoirs, Unseen Risks: Integrating Wastewater Surveillance with Patient-Level Insights into C. auris Spread
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Dec 10, 2025 |
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Can ward rounds transform IPC education?
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Nov 26, 2025 |
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Reducing harm at the Front Line: Oral Care driving down C. difficile and Line Care - the Power of Better Data
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Nov 12, 2025 |
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Posters from the 2025 Innovation Academy at ICPIC and from the UK IPS Conference
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Oct 29, 2025 |
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Infection Control Matters Live from the 2026 IPS Brighton Conference
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Oct 15, 2025 |
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Cutting CDC and IPC funding in the US - Implications and what can we do?
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Oct 01, 2025 |
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Safeguarding During Transit: RAF Expertise in High Consequence Infectious Disease Retrieval
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Sep 18, 2025 |
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The no diaper (AKA nappy) zone - reducing CAUTI?
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Sep 04, 2025 |
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Can modelling tell us what factors influence CAUTI in long and short-term catheters?
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Aug 21, 2025 |
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Leading Public Health, ID and IPC during challenging times
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Aug 06, 2025 |
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What's new in Surgical Site Infection Prevention? Update from EUCIC
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Jul 24, 2025 |
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Posters from the Hong Kong Infection Control Nurses Association conference
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Jul 09, 2025 |
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The Plume Room - adventures in toilet hygiene
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Jun 25, 2025 |
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Automated national HCAI surveillance - potential or pipedream?
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Jun 11, 2025 |
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A re-introduction to Infection Control Matters 1500 days on
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May 28, 2025 |
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National vs local IPC Guidelines - Lost in Translation?
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May 14, 2025 |
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Candidozyma auris from the lab to the front line: A discussion with UKHSA experts
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Apr 30, 2025 |
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Use of AI to create a podcast discussion - are we out of a job?
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Apr 16, 2025 |
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The Sinkbug Survey: Antibiotics, AMR, Chemicals and Plumbing
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Apr 02, 2025 |
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Surveillance for HCAI - What is important, feasible and useful - and what isn't..
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Mar 19, 2025 |
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nv-HAP surveillance too time-consuming? Semi-automated may be easier than you think
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Mar 05, 2025 |
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Methods of assessing effectiveness of hospital cleaning - a review and peek into the future?
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Feb 19, 2025 |
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Reducing CAUTI in intermittent self-catheterisation. The trial that didn't make it..
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Feb 05, 2025 |
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A poster walk at ACIPC 2024
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Jan 22, 2025 |
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Engaging Junior Doctors in IPC
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Jan 08, 2025 |
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The 2024 End of Year Special
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Dec 19, 2024 |
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In-room air purification to prevent respiratory infection in aged care - Does it help?
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Dec 04, 2024 |
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Do you have enough staff in your IP Team? Calculating the staffing requirement for your program
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Nov 20, 2024 |
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Could you have an ERCP-related outbreak? Sequencing to the rescue but you'll have to trash the scope!
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Nov 08, 2024 |
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Reducing glove use in the ambulance service
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Oct 23, 2024 |
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Can sensors and AI improve cleaning and patient safety?
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Oct 09, 2024 |
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Prevalence, fundamental care, UTI recorded live at the Infection Prevention Society Conference 2024
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Sep 25, 2024 |
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Is IPC the friend of sustainability?
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Sep 18, 2024 |
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The CLEEN study: Background and discussion with the authors
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Sep 04, 2024 |
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Removing contact precautions - what trial do we need?
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Aug 29, 2024 |
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Using AI in Infection Prevention: Opportunities and Dangers
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Aug 07, 2024 |
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An award-winning MDT collaborative approach to reducing risks from water in a large organisation
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Jul 24, 2024 |
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Healthcare Cleaning - a visit to Interclean that's an eye-opener
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Jul 10, 2024 |
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A novel approach to employing environmental service workers and an outbreak (or pseudo-outbreak) of SSI
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Jun 27, 2024 |
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More posters from ESCMID Global 2024, inc C. diff, UV-C, wastewater surveillance, LA-MRSA
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Jun 12, 2024 |
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Posters from ESCMID Global 2024 - Part 1
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May 29, 2024 |
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Reflections on Day 3 at ESCMID Global 2024
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May 15, 2024 |
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Reflections on day 2 of ESCMID Global 2024
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May 09, 2024 |
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Discussing the new WHO infectious respiratory particles paper at ECCMID (With Prof Cath Noakes)
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May 02, 2024 |
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ECCMID 2024 - The year in infection control
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Apr 29, 2024 |
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Reflections on the first morning at ECCMID 2024
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Apr 27, 2024 |
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Visualising infection transmission using genomics
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Apr 03, 2024 |
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Investigating a unique CPE strain outbreak - a possible new place to look?
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Mar 20, 2024 |
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C. difficile in England is on the rise, but why? A sign of a system on the edge and could a new variant push it over?
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Mar 07, 2024 |
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What do C. difficile and HAP have in common - toilet plume??
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Feb 21, 2024 |
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A national CPE survey of healthcare workers knowledge and some interesting sink practices
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Feb 07, 2024 |
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90% Reduction in MRSA bacteraemia. Possible but patience is a virtue!
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Jan 24, 2024 |
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C. difficile: Disinfectants, attachment and strain variations
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Jan 10, 2024 |
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The 2023 End of Year/Christmas Special
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Dec 21, 2023 |
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If you could have anything in IPC, what would you want?
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Dec 13, 2023 |
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Would you be admitted to a room where a previous person was infected?
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Nov 29, 2023 |
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MDRO Plasmid-related outbreaks - is there anything we can do? With Jon Otter
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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Ice machines - a chilling thought?
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Nov 01, 2023 |
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Detection of pathogens in the neonatal ICU environment with Dr Ginny Moore
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Oct 18, 2023 |
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Preventing device-associated infections during a COVID-19 pandemic
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Oct 04, 2023 |
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Identifying healthcare cleaning research priorities in resource-limited settings
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Sep 20, 2023 |
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Sinks in ICU Patient Rooms. Lower numbers of sinks equals lower infection rates?
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Sep 06, 2023 |
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Future directions for surveillance
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Aug 23, 2023 |
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C. difficile and One Health with Prof Tom Riley
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Aug 09, 2023 |
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Saving time and increasing IPC efficiency using Robotic Process Automation
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Jul 27, 2023 |
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A CLEEN study chat and a rude interruption!
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Jul 12, 2023 |
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Surgical site infection, quality improvement and patient involvement with Sinéad Horgan
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Jun 28, 2023 |
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Implementation of HAP Prevention - not what you do but the way that you do it
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Jun 14, 2023 |
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Have gloves and gowns had their day?
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May 31, 2023 |
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Surveillance and Antimicrobial Stewardship in long-term care facilities
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May 17, 2023 |
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Outbreaks you didn’t know that you had - the joy of whole genome sequencing
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May 04, 2023 |
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Staff opinions of automated hand hygiene monitoring
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Apr 27, 2023 |
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Human factors and cleaning in the perioperative setting
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Apr 20, 2023 |
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The 100th
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Apr 14, 2023 |
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Right specimen, right time - The importance of diagnostic stewardship
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Apr 06, 2023 |
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C. difficile - a constant challenge to stay still
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Mar 28, 2023 |
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Detection, removal and prevention of environmental biofilms
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Mar 23, 2023 |
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The Sink Splash Zone - danger lies within?
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Mar 15, 2023 |
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Oral Hygiene - attitudes and practice. Implications for pneumonia prevention.
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Mar 09, 2023 |
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Intermittent or indwelling catheter in reducing CAUTI?
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Feb 28, 2023 |
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Surgical site infection surveillance by patient-generated images
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Feb 28, 2023 |
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The 2022 Christmas Special
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Dec 21, 2022 |
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Developing an optimal infection prevention service with Dr Emma Burnett
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Dec 15, 2022 |
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Patients’ prespectives of Healthcare Infections with Prof Maria Northcote
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Dec 08, 2022 |
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Mulling over priorities, RCTs at the ACIPC Conference
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Dec 01, 2022 |
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Special episode for World Antimicrobial Awareness Week - the 2022 ESPAUR Report is published
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Nov 21, 2022 |
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IPC Challenges in aged care and priorities in acute care discussion recorded live at the ACIPC Conference
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Nov 15, 2022 |
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From Films to Biofilms with Annette Jeanes and Jean-Yves Maillard from the IPS Conference
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Nov 09, 2022 |
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It’s not what you say, it’s the way that you say it with Jon Otter (from the IPS Conference)
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Nov 02, 2022 |
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Special from the IPS Conference - reducing C. difficile by better mouthcare and a general chat
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Oct 27, 2022 |
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Transmission paradigms - the view from Engineers and Physicists with Profs Cath Noakes and Lidia Morawska
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Oct 19, 2022 |
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New contact, droplet, airborne transmission paradigms for IPC sum-up
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Oct 13, 2022 |
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Opinions from around the world on contact, droplet, airborne paradigms for IPC - Part 4 (Hilary Humphries, David Enoch, Jennie Wilson, Jon Otter, Pierre Parneix)
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Oct 10, 2022 |
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Opinions from around the world on contact, droplet, airborne paradigms for IPC - Part 3 (Maria Juraja, Egil Lingaas, Ramon Shaban, Elaine Cloutman-Green, Christine Peters)
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Oct 06, 2022 |
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New paradigms for IPC - Introduction (Contact, droplet, airborne) plus guests Kirsty Buising and Kathy Dempsey
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Oct 06, 2022 |
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Opinions from around the world on contact, droplet, airborne paradigms for IPC - Part 2 (Rhonda Stewart, Kalisvar Marimuthu, Gonzalo Bearman, Belinda Henderson, Jan Kluytmans, Caroline Marshall)
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Oct 01, 2022 |
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The impact of TB on acute IPC Team workload
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Sep 21, 2022 |
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Public reporting of infection - perspectives of hospital leaders and clinicians
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Sep 14, 2022 |
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Environmental sampling - do we know what we are doing?
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Sep 07, 2022 |
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Standardising IPC Programs with Bob Garcia
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Aug 31, 2022 |
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YouTube, Monkeypox and infection prevention and control
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Aug 24, 2022 |
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Integrated, multi-specialty IPC teams - the future? With Dr David Weber
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Aug 17, 2022 |
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IPC Team Experiences during COVID
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Aug 10, 2022 |
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VAP in the ’too difficult’ box - could VAE be the answer? with Dr Michael Klompas
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Aug 03, 2022 |
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Hidden reservoirs contribute to plasmid-mediated transmission with Dr Kalisvar Marimuthu
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Jul 27, 2022 |
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Glove or no glove - with Dr Jon Otter
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Jul 20, 2022 |
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Turning prevalence into incidence to determine the burden of healthcare associated infections
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Jul 13, 2022 |
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Are we experts? Phil, Brett and Martin mull this over
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Jul 05, 2022 |
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Arrival of Monkeypox and will transmission paradigms change post-COVID? With Dr Deb Friedman
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Jun 29, 2022 |
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The New Zealand National Point Prevalance Study with Dr Sally Roberts
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Jun 22, 2022 |
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I-DECIDED tool
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Jun 15, 2022 |
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Using whole genome sequencing as part of an infection control service
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Jun 08, 2022 |
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What affects environmental contamination with C. difficile? New papers with Dr David Weber
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Jun 01, 2022 |
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Respiratory protection preparedness in critical care healthcare workers & facial hair
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May 25, 2022 |
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Reflecting on a contact precautions talk at ECCMID with Dr Gonzalo Bearman
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May 18, 2022 |
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Environmental cleaning & the role of patient service assistants
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May 11, 2022 |
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50 Shades of Grey - Risk assessment and communicating decisions with Dr Elaine Cloutman-Green
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May 04, 2022 |
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Measuring cleaning effectivness and improvement with Dr Phil Carling from SHEA Spring 2022
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Apr 29, 2022 |
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CO2 monitoring to find hospital areas with poor ventilation - Poster at ECCMID 2022 with Sharon Bamber
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Apr 29, 2022 |
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Human and financial cost of healthcare-associated pneumonia with Dr Dian Baker at the 2022 SHEA Spring Meeting
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Apr 20, 2022 |
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N95 Mask use for respiratory protection - a discussion with Dr Michael Klompas at the SHEA Spring Meeting
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Apr 13, 2022 |
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Implementation of patient warming to prevent SSI - How hard can it be? With Prof. Judith Tanner
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Apr 05, 2022 |
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Surgical Site Infection (SSI) prevention with Charles Edmiston
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Mar 30, 2022 |
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Vaccine hesitancy and the role of social scientists in infection prevention with A/Professor Holly Seale
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Mar 23, 2022 |
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Environmental decontamination reduces healthcare infections - a systematic review with Alexandra Peters
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Mar 17, 2022 |
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Infection Prevention Team Staffing levels - Less (staff) is more (infections)?
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Mar 09, 2022 |
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Could a virtual Infection Prevention Service provide support in middle and low income countries? With Prof Gonzalo Bearman
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Mar 01, 2022 |
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Hand drying - a lot of hot air?
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Feb 23, 2022 |
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WHO Global Outreach Alert and Response Network (GOARN) with Dr Peta-Anne Zimmerman
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Feb 16, 2022 |
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Mouth Care Matters - Oral hygiene & healthcare associated infection
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Feb 08, 2022 |
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Adenosine triphosphate (ATP) - uses and considerations with Adjunct A/Professor Greg Whiteley
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Feb 02, 2022 |
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Airborne Transmission - would air filtration reduce a range of infections and why is there reluctance to recognise it? With Matt Butler, Christine Peters and Evonne Curran
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Jan 26, 2022 |
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The 2021 Christmas Special!
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Dec 15, 2021 |
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25 years of Contact Precautions, but benefit or harm and what is the evidence? With Prof Jennie Wilson
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Dec 08, 2021 |
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Ventilation and pathogen transmission with Simon Witts
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Dec 01, 2021 |
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Australia‘s Chief Nursing and Midwifery Officer - Alison McMillan on leadership and negotiation
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Nov 24, 2021 |
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Wearable proximity devices and contact tracing with Steph Curtis
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Nov 17, 2021 |
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The science of pathogen transmission via the air with Prof Lidia Morawska - ACIPC conference special
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Nov 12, 2021 |
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Use of video reflexive ethnography in IPC, clinical care and nurse education - an ACIPC 2021 special with Dr Mary Wyer and Dr Su-Yin Hor
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Nov 10, 2021 |
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Urinary catheter awareness - an ACIPC Conference special with Dr Gillian Ray-Barruel
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Nov 09, 2021 |
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Staph. capitis in NICU - Global problem or just another CoNS trick? - with Dr Alicia Demirjian
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Nov 03, 2021 |
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Fundamental and missed care impacts on healthcare-associated infection with Prof Heather Loveday
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Oct 27, 2021 |
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Monoclonal antibodies and future IPC priorities - a chat with Jon Otter
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Oct 20, 2021 |
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Transmission of Norovirus to other room occupants with Dr Carl-Johan Frankel
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Oct 06, 2021 |
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Surgical Site Infection Surveillance - Who cares? With Dr Jon Otter at the IPS Conference
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Sep 29, 2021 |
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Are guidelines letting us down? With Evonne Curran and Brett Mitchell from the IPS Conference 2021
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Sep 28, 2021 |
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Year in Infection Control - papers selected by Prof Andreas Voss at ICPIC 2021
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Sep 21, 2021 |
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Time to clean: Calculating the staffing requirement with An Caluwaerts
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Sep 17, 2021 |
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From whole genome sequencing to sinks with Dr Amy Mathers
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Sep 16, 2021 |
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Publish or we are all damned: The effect of COVID on journal publications with John McConnell of the Lancet
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Sep 16, 2021 |
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Looking to ICPIC Conference 2021 with Prof Didier Pittet and Prof Stephan Harbarth
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Sep 09, 2021 |
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Cleaning up the air using air cleaners and purifiers with Jason Monty
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Sep 07, 2021 |
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CAUTI - decades of little progress?
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Aug 31, 2021 |
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Mind your language! With Claire Kilpatrick and Martin Shovel
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Aug 24, 2021 |
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Compassion and Infection Prevention - Not mutually exclusive!
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Aug 17, 2021 |
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COVID-19 - Your Questions Answered
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Aug 10, 2021 |
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Infusion set replacement intervals, 4 days Vs 7 days with Prof Claire Rickard
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Aug 03, 2021 |
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Assessing preventability of Staph aureus bacteraemia with Daniela Karanfilovska
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Aug 02, 2021 |
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Something in the air? With Dr Kirsty Buising
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Jul 13, 2021 |
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Celebrating 20 years of Teleclass Education with Paul Webber
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Jun 30, 2021 |
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More questions than answers! Changes in bacteraemia patterns during COVID with Dr Luke Moore
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Jun 23, 2021 |
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The impact of heatlhcare associated infections - mortality, length of stay and cost
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Jun 16, 2021 |
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Prevention of healthcare associated pneumonia (HAP) (Part A) with Dr Victoria Ewan
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Jun 09, 2021 |
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Gaming, apps and Infection Control with Dr Robbert Bentvelsen and Ender Holten
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Jun 02, 2021 |
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Role of clinical scientists in infection prevention and control with Dr Elaine Cloutman-Green
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May 26, 2021 |
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Sociology and Qualitative research and IPC with Professor Maria Northcote and Dr Cassie Curryer
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May 18, 2021 |
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Hand hygiene at critical points and the sequence of patient care with Professor Loreen Herwaldt
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May 12, 2021 |
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Unintended consequences for infection prevention and control during COVID-19
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May 05, 2021 |
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Hand hygiene with Professor Didier Pittet
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Apr 28, 2021 |
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The COVID-19 Evidence Taskforce with A/Professor Julian Elliott and Dr Tari Turner
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Apr 21, 2021 |
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Practical elements of healthcare environmental cleaning - With Brett Mitchell and Martin Kiernan
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Apr 14, 2021 |
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COVID "Myths" with Dr Stephanie Dancer
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Mar 31, 2021 |
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Introduction
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Mar 29, 2021 |