Professional practice guidelines

Écrit présentant un ensemble d’énoncés sur un sujet particulier qui visent à soutenir le professionnel qui intervient dans ce domaine. Ces énoncés sont développés selon une approche systématique qui tient compte des connaissances disponibles et des principes d’éthique professionnelle applicable à son champ de pratique.

Measures to Prevent and Control Transmission of Multidrug-Resistant Gram-Negative Bacilli (Excluding Carbapenemase-Producing Enterobacteriaceae) in Acute Care Settings in Québec

Gram-negative bacilli (GNB) are bacteria frequently encountered in clinical settings, both as normal flora and as pathogens in a variety of infections.

The use of antibiotics has led to the emergence of various resistance mechanisms and some of these bacteria are now resistant to several classes of antibiotics.

This document was created to help healthcare-associated infection prevention and control (IPC) teams identify major multidrug-resistant. Gram-negative bacilli (MDR-…

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Prevention and control measures for Clostridium difficile in residential and long-term care facilities

Since August 2004, Clostridium difficile associated diarrhea (CDAD) has undergone ongoing surveillance in all Quebec hospitals with more than 1,000 admissions annually. The surveillance has monitored the evolution of CDAD levels in health care facilities and confirmed their decrease. From an average of 9.1 cases/10,000 patient days in 2005-2006, the average rate has dropped to 4.6 cases/10,000 patient days in 2016-2017 (SPIN, 2017). Clostridium difficile (C. difficile…
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Prevention and control measures for Candida auris in health care facilities

Candida auris is an emerging microorganism that belongs to the yeast category. Increasingly, it is being found as a pathogen causing nosocomial fungal infections. First identified in Japan in 2009 in a sample from a patient’s auditory canal (Satoh et al., 2009; ECDC, 2016; Rock, 2017), it has since been identified in up to 17 countries, spread across at least 5 continents: Asia, Europe, Africa and the Americas (CDC, 2017a; Schwartz and Hammond, 2017). C. auris…
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A Practical Guide to Support Public Health Management and Intervention in Case of Reports and Episodes of Drug Overdoses

Tools :

Overdose report form for health professionals Overdose report form for communitybased organizations Investigation questionnaire

Drug use is a current phenomenon creating…

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Fact Sheets on the Indicators of the Tool for Identifying Psychosocial Risk Factors in the Workplace

This collection of fact sheets, which was prepared in response to numerous requests for simple and accurate information on psychosocial risk (PSR) factors in the workplace, is intended to serve as a practical tool for occupational health workers as a whole. The fact sheets were drawn up by experts from the Équipe de prévention des risques psychosociaux du travail et promotion de la santé des travailleurs (Team for the prevention of psychosocial risk factors in the…

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Interim Measures to Prevent and Control Transmission of Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae and other Multidrug-Resistant Gram-Negative Bacilli in Long-term Care Settings

In 2010, the Comité sur les infections nosocomiales du Québec (CINQ) [Québec healthcare-associated infections committee] released its guidelines for preventing and controlling transmission of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae, and then more recently, in 2015, its measures to prevent and control transmission of multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacilli (MDR-GNB) in acute care settings.

The application of infection prevention and control (IPC) measures in long-term care…

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Guide to Analyzing Spousal Violence Within a Region - 2nd edition

This guide is designed to help you do an assessment of spousal violence within a region. It proposes a systematic procedure to 1) prepare a portrait of the scope of spousal violence within the study area on the basis of available data, 2) better understand the distribution of spousal violence in that area, 3) identify which groups are most affected, and 4) gain a better grasp of the factors potentially associated with the problem. The goal is to help communities obtain a more in-depth…

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Measures to Prevent and Control Transmission of Multidrug-Resistant Gram-Negative Bacilli in Acute Care Settings in Québec

Gram-negative bacilli (GNB) are bacteria frequently encountered in clinical settings, both as normal flora and as pathogens in a variety of infections. The use of antibiotics has led to the emergence of various resistance mechanisms and some of these bacteria are now resistant to several classes of antibiotics. This document has been prepared to help healthcare-associated infection prevention and control (IPC) teams recognize the major multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacilli (MDR-GNB) and…

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Guide for the Management of Outbreaks of Clostridium difficile–Associated Diarrhea (CDAD) in Hospitals

Clostridium difficile is the leading cause of healthcare-associated infectious diarrhea in adults, affecting 0.3–2% of hospitalized patients. The epidemiology, pathogenesis, clinical manifestations, risk factors, diagnosis and management of cases of Clostridium difficile–associated diarrhea (CDAD) were the subject of a previous publication. The incidence of CDAD varies widely across and within institutions.

In 2003, a marked increase was observed in the incidence,…

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Travel health intervention guide

This guide has been published in French only.

Some tools have been translated and are available here :

Atovaquone-Proguanil Chloroquine Doxycycline Malaria Mefloquine Primaquine…
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