Protocol to establish standards for the elements infection prevention and control programs and competencies for infection control professionals in Australian residential aged care homes

• Ramon Z. Shaban ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ramon.shaban@sydney.edu.au

  Affiliations Susan Wakil School of Nursing and Midwifery, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Camperdown, New South Wales, Australia, Sydney Infectious Diseases Institute, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Camperdown, New South Wales, Australia, Research and Education Network, Western Sydney Local Health District, Westmead, New South Wales, Australia, New South Wales High Consequence Infectious Disease Advisory Service, Westmead Hospital, Western Sydney Local Health District, Westmead, New South Wales, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5203-0557

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• Kate Curtis,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Susan Wakil School of Nursing and Midwifery, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Camperdown, New South Wales, Australia, Emergency Services, Illawarra Shoalhaven Local Health District, Wollongong Hospital, Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia

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• Margaret Fry,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Nursing and Midwifery, Faculty of Health, University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, New South Wales, Australia

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• Brendan McCormack,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Susan Wakil School of Nursing and Midwifery, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Camperdown, New South Wales, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8525-8905

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• Deborah Parker,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Nursing and Midwifery, Faculty of Health, University of Technology Sydney, Ultimo, New South Wales, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2552-8613

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• Deborough Macbeth,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Gold Coast Hospital and Health Service, Gold Coast University Hospital, Southport, Queensland, Australia

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• Brett G. Mitchell,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations School of Nursing, Avondale University, Lake Macquarie, New South Wales, Australia, Central Coast Local Health District, Gosford, New South Wales, Australia, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Monash University, Frankston, Victoria, Australia

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• Phillip L. Russo,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation School of Nursing and Midwifery, Monash University, Frankston, Victoria, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3822-0554

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• N. Deborah Friedman,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Victorian Healthcare Associated Infection Surveillance System (VICNISS) Coordinating Centre and Department of Infectious Diseases, University of Melbourne at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Department of Infectious Diseases, Melbourne Medical School, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

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• Noleen Bennett,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Victorian Healthcare Associated Infection Surveillance System (VICNISS) Coordinating Centre and Department of Infectious Diseases, University of Melbourne at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, Department of Nursing, School of Health Sciences, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia

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• Lucy Thompson,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation United Protestant Association of New South Wales Ltd, Wahroonga, New South Wales, Australia

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• Jo-Ann Dalton,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Hardi Aged Care, Seven Hills, New South Wales, Australia

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• Kathy Dempsey,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Clinical Excellence Commission, St Leonards, New South Wales, Australia

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• Belinda Henderson,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Queensland Infection Prevention and Control Unit, Queensland Health, Herston, Queensland, Australia

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• Julie Considine,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations School of Nursing and Midwifery and Centre for Quality and Patient Safety Research in the Centre for Health Transformation, Deakin University, Geelong, Victoria, Australia, Eastern Health, Box Hill, Victoria, Australia

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• Rachel Bowes,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Southern Cross Care (New South Wales & ACT), Epping, New South Wales, Australia

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• Elise Campbell,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Australia Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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• Merrick Powell,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Susan Wakil School of Nursing and Midwifery, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Camperdown, New South Wales, Australia, Sydney Infectious Diseases Institute, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Camperdown, New South Wales, Australia

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• Catherine Viengkham

  Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Susan Wakil School of Nursing and Midwifery, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Camperdown, New South Wales, Australia, Sydney Infectious Diseases Institute, Faculty of Medicine and Health, The University of Sydney, Camperdown, New South Wales, Australia

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