IFIC Survey on Faeces and Urine

[Michael Wishart]

[Posted on behalf of Marija Juraja, ACIPC President – Moderator]

IFIC Survey on Faeces and Urine

This short survey explores how faeces (more importantly than urine) is handled in your facility.
The opening paragraph to the survey states that faeces (and to a smaller extent urine) can transport germs and infect other patients. Excretion of multi antibiotic resistant organisms via faeces is a recognised risk. Therefore, knowledge about the handling of faeces and urine in hospitals is of great interest, but very little is known on a worldwide basis.

IFIC has decided to undertake a small study to gather more information about this issue, to understand the likely problems in different continents, areas and countries in the world and define realistic aims to improve the situation. The research results they hope will help to provide recommendations and assist in developing guidelines in defining training and education in this area for healthcare professionals.

The questions take less than 5 minutes and the survey results go back to Professor Dr. Walter Popp, Hospital Hygiene, University Clinics of Essen, Hufelandstr. 55, 45122 Essen, Germany (walter.popp@uk-essen.de)

MEIKO – an IFIC Strategic Partner – is offering 25 free print copies of the textbook: IFIC Basic Concepts of Infection Control, to participants who reply to the survey by end of March 2013. Winners will be chosen by lot from the respondents who have answered by that date and have provided a contact email.

Link to survey
http://www.theific.org/ificsurvey.html

Kind Regards

Marija Juraja
RN, Grad Cert IC, CICP
President, ACIPC
—
WARNING : This email contains information, which is CONFIDENTIAL, and that maybe subject to LEGAL PRIVILEGE. This e-mail and any attachments to it (the “Communication”) is confidential and is for the use only of the intended recipient, and may not duplicated or used by any other party without the express consent of the sender. The Communication may contain copyright material of St Vincent’s Health & Aged Care(“SVHAC”), or any of its related entities or of third parties. If you are not the intended recipient of the Communication, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, delete the Communication, and do not read, copy, print, retransmit, store or act in reliance on the Communication. Any views expressed in the Communication are those of the individual sender only, unless expressly stated to be those of SVHAC. SVHAC does not guarantee the integrity of the Communication, or that it is free from errors, viruses or interference. Thank-you.

Message protected by MailGuard: e-mail anti-virus, anti-spam and content filtering.http://www.mailguard.com.au/mg

Messages posted to this list are solely the opinion of the authors, and do not represent the opinion of ACIPC.

Archive of all messages are available at http://aicalist.org.au/archives – registration and login required.

Replies to this message will be directed back to the list. To create a new message send an email to aicalist@aicalist.org.au

To send a message to the list administrator send an email to aicalist-request@aicalist.org.au.

You can unsubscribe from this list be sending ‘signoff aicalist’ (without the quotes) to listserv@aicalist.org.au

[Author]

Posts