On 19 October and on 3 November 2023, the NeoIPC WP2-TRIAL team successfully hosted two NeoDeco Country Investigator Meetings. One took place in Zurich, Switzerland, and the other in Thessaloniki, Greece, marking the beginning of a series of meetings involving the...
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Webinar on surveillance of hospital-acquired infections in the NICU: registrations now open
Hospital-acquired infections pose a significant risk to the health and wellbeing of newborns, especially preterm babies. The NeoIPC Clinical Practice Network will be holding a webinar focusing on the role and potential of surveillance in preventing hospital-acquired...
Optimising kangaroo care to reduce neonatal severe infection/sepsis and resistant bacterial colonisation among high-risk infants in neonatal intensive care: a pragmatic, multicentre, parallel cluster randomised hybrid implementation–effectiveness trial (NeoDeco)
Authors: Martin J, Cook A, Bielicki J, and the NeoIPC Consortium
Presented at: 5th jENS Congress 2023
Antibiotic use in neonatal care: measuring cumulative exposure in point prevalence surveys identifies high infant-level antibiotic exposure
Authors: Cook A, on behalf of the NeoIPC Consortium
Presented at: 5th jENS Congress 2023
Reducing sepsis in the NICU: Introducing the NeoIPC project
Author: Jennifer Martin, on behalf of the NeoIPC consortium Presented at: 8th Annual Conference of the International Neonatology Association (INAC), September 2023 view presentation
New Africa CDC Legal Framework for Infection Prevention and Control to support IPC in African hospitals
Africa CDC has joined forces with African Union (AU) Member States, the Infection Control Africa Network, U.S. CDC, and the World Health Organization to establish an Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) legal framework for AU Member States. This framework represents...
ECDC publishes epidemiological update on Echovirus 11 infection in newborns
On 19 July 2023, the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) released an epidemiological update on the increase in severe neonatal Echovirus 11 (E11) infection among newborns in several European NICUs during the period between July 2022 and 2023.
O32 Using rapid qualitative inquiry for implementation support in a multinational study on infection prevention and control in neonatal intensive care
Authors: Cook A, on behalf of the NeoIPC Consortium
Presented at: 5th jENS Congress 2023
Descriptive interim analysis of the sampling strategy in anonymous repeated cross-sectional samples in European neonatal intensive care units
Authors: Golhen K, Gotta V, Pfister M, Bielicki J Presented at: ESPID 2023 view poster
Descriptive interim analysis of the sampling strategy in anonymous repeated cross-sectional samples in European neonatal intensive care units (NICU)
Authors: Golhen K, Gotta V, Pfister M, Bielicki J
Presented at: ESPID 2023