Announcements
Data Collection for Phase II of the P-NICE Study is almost complete!
We would like to thank the 250+ participants who completed the "Prevention of Nosocomial Infections and Cost Effectiveness" (P-NICE) Survey and the over 50 hospitals that are participating in Phase II of the study.
We are currently writing up the results and analyzing the survey data from Phase I. We are proud to announce that the first paper on the results of the survey has been accepted for publication in the American Journal of Infection Control (AJIC) and is now available as an e-publication. You can click here to see the paper. This paper focuses on the staffing and structure of infection prevention and control programs. Additionally, we were asked to update the staffing chapter in the APIC text of Infection Control and Epidemiology. We included these results in the text.
We have some exciting news to share with you. The abstract we have submitted
to the annual APIC Meeting this June were selected for two awards. The two awards
are the *Blue Ribbon Abstract Award* for Pat’s abstract, “Staffing and Structure
of Infection Prevention and Control Programs in a National Sample of NHSN Hospitals”
and Monika’s *New Investigator Award* for the abstract, “Policies and Practices for
Multi-Drug Resistant Organisms in a National Sample of NHSN Hospitals.”
In addition, we will most likely present at the NHSN meeting. If you are going to any of these meetings and see either of us, please stop and say Hi!
We would like to personally thank-you every one of you for your time and hard work. Clearly, you are busier than ever and the work you are doing is very important!
Sincerely,
The P-NICE Research Team
Teresa C. Horan
Patricia Stone
Elaine Larson
E. Yoko Furuya
Andrew Dick
Monika Pogorzelska