Upgrade
Upgrading Infection Prevention and Control: development of a pragmatic randomized control trial
The Upgrade project aims to develop a standardized system to prevent infection and control measures in long-term healthcare units that allows regular verification of their effectiveness, including the environment, focussing on microbiological air quality as a model to test the system.
Keywords: Air Quality, Antimicrobial Resistance, Infection prevention and control
Principal Investigator: Sónia Gonçalves Pereira
Duration: 36 months (2019 – 2023)
Institutional Partners and Others
- HES-SO University of Applied Sciences and Arts Western Switzerland
- Portuguese Polytechnics Coordinating Council (CCISP)
Funding: FCT
