In support of Canada’s Hand Hygiene Campaign, The Southwest Community Care Access Centre (SWCCAC) and its contracted service providers, in collaboration with the South Western Ontario Infection Control Network (SWOICN), is launching a community-care hand hygiene campaign. The campaign is entitled “Infection Control... it’s in your hands.” It is designed to create increased awareness about the i...

Many efforts to automatically measure hand hygiene activity depend on radio-frequency identification equipment or similar technology that can be expensive to install. We have developed a method for automatically tracking the use of hand hygiene dispensers before healthcare workers enter (or after they exit) patient rooms that is easily and quickly deployed without permanent hardware.

Household-based interventions are the mainstay of public health policy against epidemic respiratory pathogens when vaccination is not available. Although the efficacy of these interventions has traditionally been measured by their ability to reduce the proportion of household contacts who exhibit symptoms [household secondary attack rate (hSAR)], this metric is difficult to interpret and makes ...

We identified and invited 38 different intervention systems to complete a questionnaire (questionnaire available in the following pages) in order to investigate exactly what a hospital would need to purchase & install, and what is needed to maintain an electronic system. We also focused on data reporting – how much effort does the IP need to invest to get data from these devices and what do the...