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