• "Notes from a Dinghy" - Meeting the Infection Control Challenges in the Torres Strait
• A State-wide Clinical Improvement Project: Aseptic Insertion of Central Lines to Reduce CLABSI
• Acinetobacter in ICU
• Advances in Sterilisation and Disinfection - What’s New?
• An Outbreak of Hypervirulent Clostridium difficile (ribotype 027) in an Australian Aged Care Rehabilitation Centre
• Antibiotic Resistant Microorganisms: The European Perspective
• Antibiotic Resistant Organisms - The USA Perspective
• APSIC Research - 2011 - 2012
• Australia
• Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Society CLABSI Project - the Program, Objectives & Interventions
• Balancing No Blame with Accountability
• Checklists: An Overview of their Use and How to Avoid Checklist Fatigue
• Commissioning Operating Theatres - What we have Learnt?
• Dealing with Mould Following Flooding in a Healthcare Facility
• Emerging KPC Beta Lactamases and CTX ESBLs - Implications for the Region
• Epidemiology and Management of Clostridium Difficile Infections (CDI) in the USA
• Europe: Infection control research
• Evaluating Which Methods are Used for Hospital Cleanliness - An Update
• Evaluation of the Impact of the National Hand Hygiene Initiative on Reducing Healthcare-associated Infections in Public Hospitals in Australia - An Update
• Global Outbreak Alert & Response Network (GOARN) - The Training Experience
• H1N1 - A Global Overview
• H1N1 - Surgical Masks or N95 Masks in Health Workers - What is the Evidence?
• Hong Kong
• Hospital Associated Infection Outbreaks - Lessons to be Learnt
• Hospital Associated Infections - Open Disclosure and the Law in Australia
• How Accreditation Agencies can Improve Infection Control Standards?
• How Nurses Work - Implications for Patient Care and Infection Control
• How to Present Surveillance Data - Making CLABSI Real for Healthcare Workers
• Implementing Care Bundles in Developing Countries - What are the Issues?
• Implementing Care Bundles in the USA
• Infection Control after the Tsunami in Japan, 2011
• Infection Control and the Role of the Clinical Product Evaluation Nurse
• Infection Control Training for Medical And Nursing Students - Is the Current Curriculum Meeting the Needs?
• Infection Prevention & Control in Papua New Guinea and Beyond Borders
• Infection Prevention & Control Teams - The Past, Present and Future
• Infection Prevention and Control Program in Developing Countries: Achievements, Challenges and Opportunities in Cambodia
• Intravascular Catheters - Reducing the Risks
• Introducing a Healthcare Worker Safety Program into a Developing Country - The Albion Street Centre, Safe Hands Program
• Investigating Hospital Associated Outbreaks in Thailand - How we Manage with Limited Resources
• Laboratory Methods to Support Epidemiological Investigations during an Outbreak - How Accessible are they in Australia?
• Managing Antibiotic-Resistant Organisms in Thailand
• Managing Tuberculosis - What are the Challenges in Resource Limited Countries?
• MDR, XDR and PDR Superbugs: How Much Worse is it in Asia and Taiwan
• Measles Outbreaks in Victoria
• Medical & Transplant Tourism - What are the Implications for Infection Control?
• Misconceptions Pertaining to Chlorhexidine and its Use in Skin Antisepsis
• Modern Behavioural Research and Infection Control Training?
• Modifiable Risk Factors and Current Strategies to Prevent SSIs
• MRSA - To Isolate or Not to Isolate MRSA?
• MRSA and Implant Infections
• Multi Use IV Bags and Multi dose Vials - What are the Risks?
• Nasopharyngoscopes - Bacterial Efficacy of Sterile Barrier Sheaths and Intermediate Level Disinfection
• National Healthcare-associated Infections Surveillance System and Results in South Korea: 15 Years Experience
• National Staphylococcal aureus Bloodstream Infection Surveillance in Australia - What is the Data Telling Us?
• Natural Ventilation in Infection Control - New Concepts and a New WHO Guideline
• Organizational Strategies for the Implementation of Infection Prevention & Control Programs - the Top Down Mandate
• ORION (Outbreak Reports and Intervention Studies of Nosocomial Infection) Statement - Guidelines for Intervention Infection Control Research Studies
• Pay for Performance & Hospitals Associated Infections(HAIs) - The USA model
• Planning, Design and Construction of Healthcare Facilities
• Protecting Immunocompromised Patients from Fungal Infections - What do the Guidelines Say?
• Resistant Organism Tracking Utilising Statistical Process Control (SPC) Charts in Malaysia - How SPCs Can be Used on a National Level
• Respiratory Illness in Hong Kong - How we Track what we Find at the Hospitals in Hong Kong
• Robotic Surgery - An Overview
• Singapore
• Strategies and Technologies to Reduce Needlestick Injuries - What Works and What's New?
• Surgeon Specific Infection Rates - What do Surgeons do with this Data?
• Surgeons’ Perspectives on Surgical Wound Infection Rate Data
• Switzerland
• The Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology "I Believe In Zero CLABSIs" Campaign
• The Future of Infection Control: Predictions, Warnings and Challenges
• The Global Burden of HAI and Addressing the Problem in Vietnam to Improve Patient Safety
• The impact of SARS, Nipah and H1N1 on Infection Control Programs in the Asia Pacific Region - a Reflection
• The Institute of Healthcare Improvement (IHI) An Expedition - Preventing Catheter-associated Urinary Tract Infections
• The National Hand Hygiene Initiative
• The Organisational Impact and Costs of an Outbreak of Hyper-virulent Clostridium difficile (ribotype 027) in an Australian Aged Care Rehabilitation Centre
• The Permanent Implantation of VAD's in population ineligible for Heart Transplantation(HTx) : The Impact of Infection Morbidity
• The Risk of Infection in Long Term Care and Home Care Settings
• The Role of Industry in Promoting Infection Control Research - What Are The Benefits?
• Total Room Ultraviolet Disinfection - Research from Duke University and University of North Carolina
• USA
• Vaccine Preventable Diseases - The Patient and the Healthcare Worker
• Vancomycin Resistant Enterococci (VRE) - Do isolation strategies work?
• What's New in Electronic Surveillance Software?
• WHO in Hong Kong - An Update

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