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Australia's quality use of medicines (QUM) program, including antimicrobial stewardship; health care-related infection prevention and management efforts, including the National Hand Hygiene Initiative; clinical trial safety and reporting programs; These programs all broadly sit under one specific NSQHS Standard.
Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology is primarily composed of infection prevention and control professionals with nursing or medical technology backgrounds; The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America is more heavily weighted towards practitioners who are physicians or doctoral-level epidemiologists.
The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) is the main statutory authority of the Australian Government responsible for medical research. It was the eighth largest research funding body in the world in 2016, [ 1 ] and NHMRC-funded research is globally recognised for its high quality. [ 2 ]
Transmission-based precautions are infection-control precautions in health care, in addition to the so-called "standard precautions". They are the latest routine infection prevention and control practices applied for patients who are known or suspected to be infected or colonized with infectious agents, including certain epidemiologically important pathogens, which require additional control ...
In health care facilities, isolation represents one of several measures that can be taken to implement in infection control: the prevention of communicable diseases from being transmitted from a patient to other patients, health care workers, and visitors, or from outsiders to a particular patient (reverse isolation). Various forms of isolation ...
Australia confirmed four more cases involving evacuees from the cruise ship Diamond Princess, bringing the total number to 19. [209] Israel also confirmed its first case, an evacuee from Diamond Princess. [210] [211] Italy confirmed 17 cases, bringing the total number to 20. Authorities also reported the first death, a 78-year-old man.
On 25 January, the first case of a SARS-CoV-2 infection was reported, that of a Chinese citizen who arrived from Guangzhou on 19 January. The patient was tested and received treatment in Melbourne. [2] [3] On the same day, three other patients tested positive in Sydney after returning from Wuhan. [4] [5] [6] Nine cases were recorded in January.
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