Global variances in infection control practices for vancomycin resistant Enterococcus – results of an electronic survey
An electronic survey was disseminated amongst infection control practitioners to investigate the variation in practices toward vancomycin resistant enterococci. There were 235 analysable responses, mostly from doctors, in 48 countries. The survey considered active surveillance, in-hospital precautio...
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description | An electronic survey was disseminated amongst infection control practitioners to investigate the variation in practices toward vancomycin resistant enterococci. There were 235 analysable responses, mostly from doctors, in 48 countries. The survey considered active surveillance, in-hospital precautions and tagging and untagging processes. There was a great variation in responses between and within countries highlighting a gap in guidance for practitioners on which to base institutional policy. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s13756-016-0140-5) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. |
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spelling | pubmed-50940572016-11-07 Global variances in infection control practices for vancomycin resistant Enterococcus – results of an electronic survey Isenman, H. Michaels, J. Fisher, D. Antimicrob Resist Infect Control Short Report An electronic survey was disseminated amongst infection control practitioners to investigate the variation in practices toward vancomycin resistant enterococci. There were 235 analysable responses, mostly from doctors, in 48 countries. The survey considered active surveillance, in-hospital precautions and tagging and untagging processes. There was a great variation in responses between and within countries highlighting a gap in guidance for practitioners on which to base institutional policy. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s13756-016-0140-5) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. BioMed Central 2016-11-03 /pmc/articles/PMC5094057/ /pubmed/27822366 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13756-016-0140-5 Text en © The Author(s). 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Short Report Isenman, H. Michaels, J. Fisher, D. Global variances in infection control practices for vancomycin resistant Enterococcus – results of an electronic survey |
title | Global variances in infection control practices for vancomycin resistant Enterococcus – results of an electronic survey |
title_full | Global variances in infection control practices for vancomycin resistant Enterococcus – results of an electronic survey |
title_fullStr | Global variances in infection control practices for vancomycin resistant Enterococcus – results of an electronic survey |
title_full_unstemmed | Global variances in infection control practices for vancomycin resistant Enterococcus – results of an electronic survey |
title_short | Global variances in infection control practices for vancomycin resistant Enterococcus – results of an electronic survey |
title_sort | global variances in infection control practices for vancomycin resistant enterococcus – results of an electronic survey |
topic | Short Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5094057/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27822366 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13756-016-0140-5 |
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