Using Video-Reflexive Methods to Develop a Provider Down Protocol for the New South Wales Biocontainment Center.

The New South Wales Biocontainment Centre is a statewide referral facility for patients with high-consequence infectious disease (HCID). The facility collaborates with researchers to adapt existing HCID procedures such as donning and doffing of personal protective equipment (PPE). However, information on how to respond safely to collapse of a healthcare provider in full PPE within a contaminated zone is scarce.

Risk assessment and the use of personal protective equipment in an emergency department: Differing perspectives of emergency and infection control clinicians. A video-vignette survey.

Background: The use of personal protective equipment (PPE) in emergency departments (EDs) is an important defense during infectious disease emergencies. However, what counts as appropriate PPE in EDs is contentious and inconsistently implemented in practice.

Methods: An online scenario-based video survey was distributed through purposive sampling, and completed by 270 ED and infection prevention and control clinicians in Australia.

Exploring the safety and quality of mobile X-ray imaging in a new infectious disease biocontainment unit: an in situ simulation and video-reflexive study.

Objectives: During a precommissioning inspection of a new biocontainment centre, radiographers noted structural features of quarantine rooms that could compromise staff and patient safety and the X-ray image quality, even after significant modifications had been made to an earlier radiography protocol. The aim of this study was to explore the safety and effectiveness of the modified protocol, in the new space, and identify improvements, if required.

Design: A qualitative study using in situ simulation and video-reflexive methods.

Hospital health care workers' use of facial protective equipment before the COVID-19 pandemic, implications for future policy.

Background: Prepandemic routine use of facial (respiratory and eye) protective equipment (FPE) by health care workers was suboptimal. Understanding factors affecting routine use would facilitate escalation to high level use during infectious disease emergencies. This study explored health care workers FPE-related knowledge, attitudes and behaviors.

Planning and executing a national point prevalence study: a blueprint for the future.

Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are a significant risk for patients and a burden on the health system. In 2021, the Te Tāhū Hauora Health Quality & Safety Commission New Zealand Infection Prevention and Control Team undertook a national HAI point prevalence survey (PPS) across all 20 district health boards (DHBs). We describe the process that was undertaken to plan for and execute the PPS.