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IMPLEMENT IMPLEmenting Strategic Bundles for Infection Prevention & ManageMENT

DG Sanco The Health and Consumer Protection Directorate General has the task of keeping EU laws on the safety of food and other products, on consumers' rights and on the protection of people's health up to date.

EARSS The European Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance System, funded by DG SANCO of the European Commission, is an international network of national surveillance systems which collects comparable and validated antimicrobial susceptibility data for seven major bacterial pathogens causing invasive infections (Streptococcus pneumoniae, Staphylococcus aureus, Enterococcus faecalis, Enterococcus faecium, Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae and Pseudomonas aeruginosa) and monitors variations of antimicrobial resistance over time and place. On the interactive website up-to-date details on country-specific resistance levels for important groups of antibiotics are available.

ECCMID European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

ECDC The European Centre of Disease Prevention and Control is an EU agency with aim to strengthen Europe's defences against infectious disease.

EMCDDA European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction

ESAC European Surveillance of Antimicrobial Consumption is a DG SANCO funded monitoring programme, which aims at collecting standardized, harmonised, and comparable data on antibiotic consumption. The over all goals of ESAC I (2001-2004) and ESAC II (2004-2007) are to document variations in antibiotic consumption within Europe and to translate them into quality indicators for public health monitoring over time and place in order to target interventions and to assess the effectiveness of prevention programmes.

Eurosurveillance is a leading independent European scientific journal devoted to the epidemiology, surveillance, prevention and control of communicable diseases.

Health-EU The Public Health Portal of the European Union with a wide range of information and data on health-related issues and activities at both European and international level.

IMPLEMENT Implementing Strategic Bundles for Infection Management

HELICS Hospitals in Europe Link to Infection Control through Surveillance is an international network aiming at the collection, analysis and dissemination of valid data on the risk of nosocomial infections in European hospitals.

IPSE Improving Patient Safety in Europe is a DG SANCO funded programme that focuses on hospital infection control. The main issues are education and training of staff, development of guidelines and surveillance.

NCHI National Concern for Healthcare Infections

SIRN The Scottish Infection Research Network was established to work towards increasing the quality of research, and contributing towards the prevention and control of Healthcare Associated Infections.

WHO World Health Organization Every year, the treatment and care of hundreds of millions of patients worldwide is complicated by infections acquired during health care. As a result, some patients become more seriously ill than they would otherwise have been. Some have prolonged stays in hospital, some experience long-term disability and some die. As well as the humancost, health-care systems carry a massive additional financial burden. To address this global challenge the World Alliance for Patient Safety and its technical partners, have developed low-cost strategies that help reduce health care-associated infection.
   

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IMPLEMENT IMPLEmenting Strategic Bundles for Infection Prevention & ManageMENT

DG Sanco The Health and Consumer Protection Directorate General has the task of keeping EU laws on the safety of food and other products, on consumers' rights and on the protection of people's health up to date.

EARSS The European Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance System, funded by DG SANCO of the European Commission, is an international network of national surveillance systems which collects comparable and validated antimicrobial susceptibility data for seven major bacterial pathogens causing invasive infections (Streptococcus pneumoniae, Staphylococcus aureus, Enterococcus faecalis, Enterococcus faecium, Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae and Pseudomonas aeruginosa) and monitors variations of antimicrobial resistance over time and place. On the interactive website up-to-date details on country-specific resistance levels for important groups of antibiotics are available.

ECCMID European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

ECDC The European Centre of Disease Prevention and Control is an EU agency with aim to strengthen Europe's defences against infectious disease.

EMCDDA European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction

ESAC European Surveillance of Antimicrobial Consumption is a DG SANCO funded monitoring programme, which aims at collecting standardized, harmonised, and comparable data on antibiotic consumption. The over all goals of ESAC I (2001-2004) and ESAC II (2004-2007) are to document variations in antibiotic consumption within Europe and to translate them into quality indicators for public health monitoring over time and place in order to target interventions and to assess the effectiveness of prevention programmes.

Eurosurveillance is a leading independent European scientific journal devoted to the epidemiology, surveillance, prevention and control of communicable diseases.

Health-EU The Public Health Portal of the European Union with a wide range of information and data on health-related issues and activities at both European and international level.

IMPLEMENT Implementing Strategic Bundles for Infection Management

HELICS Hospitals in Europe Link to Infection Control through Surveillance is an international network aiming at the collection, analysis and dissemination of valid data on the risk of nosocomial infections in European hospitals.

IPSE Improving Patient Safety in Europe is a DG SANCO funded programme that focuses on hospital infection control. The main issues are education and training of staff, development of guidelines and surveillance.

NCHI National Concern for Healthcare Infections

SIRN The Scottish Infection Research Network was established to work towards increasing the quality of research, and contributing towards the prevention and control of Healthcare Associated Infections.

WHO World Health Organization Every year, the treatment and care of hundreds of millions of patients worldwide is complicated by infections acquired during health care. As a result, some patients become more seriously ill than they would otherwise have been. Some have prolonged stays in hospital, some experience long-term disability and some die. As well as the humancost, health-care systems carry a massive additional financial burden. To address this global challenge the World Alliance for Patient Safety and its technical partners, have developed low-cost strategies that help reduce health care-associated infection.