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The Continuing Story: Eliminating MRSA in the Netherlands
Program Code:
3503
Date:
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Time:
1:30 PM to 2:30 PM
EST
SPEAKER
:
Gertie van Knippenberg-Gordebeke, Consultant Infection Prevention, KNIP Consultancy Infection Prevention
Description
The Netherlands has an international recognized program for elimination MRSA the so called Search and Destroy Policy. The MRSA rate in June 2007 was 1.4%. In 2008 the Dutch Working Party on Antibiotic Policy (SWAB) and the Dutch Working Party on Infection Prevention (WIP) received the Alliance for the Prudent Use of Antibiotics (APUA) leadership award for their work on antibiotic use improvement and infection control in the Netherlands.;Objectives: *Insight in the Dutch MRSA Search and Destroy policy what can be downloaded in Englishfrom www.wip.nl *Describe the risk due to poor practice for MRSA in the healthcare institution *Determine strategic interventions to eliminate MRSA