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Table 1 Countries with four or more institutions represented: (Number, with percentage relating to the total responses from that country per specific question)

From: Global variances in infection control practices for vancomycin resistant Enterococcus – results of an electronic survey

 

Screening

Cleaning

Untagging

Country (No Institutions Responded)

Universal

Never

Targeted

On stool

Same as others

Increase in outbreak

High tech non touch

More than others

Don’t label

After time

After swab

After time + swab

Never Untag

Australia (37)

3 (8)

3 (8)

31 (84)

-

2 (6)

6 (18)

1 (3)

25 (73)

2 (6)

3 (9)

3 (9)

16 (45)

11 (31)

Canada (4)

3 (75)

-

1 (25)

-

-

-

-

4 (100)

-

-

1 (25)

2 (50)

1 (25)

China (4)

-

1 (25)

1 (25)

2 (50)

1 (25)

-

-

3 (75)

-

1 (25)

2 (50)

1 (25)

-

Denmark (8)

4 (57)

1 (14)

2 (28)

-

-

1 (14)

3 (43)

3 (43)

-

2 (29)

3 (43)

1 (14)

1 (14)

Malaysia (6)

1 (17)

4 (66)

-

1 (17)

-

2 (33)

-

4 (67)

2 (33)

-

1 (17)

-

3 (50)

Netherlands (5)

 

1 (20)

4 (80)

-

1 (25)

-

-

4 (80)

-

-

-

5 (100)

-

New Zealand (7)

-

1 (14)

5 (72)

1 (14)

-

1 (17)

1 (17)

4 (66)

-

-

-

2 (33)

4 (67)

Singapore (7)

-

-

7 (100)

-

-

2 (40)

-

3 (60)

-

1 (14)

-

6 (86)

-

Turkey (5)

-

-

5 (100)

-

-

-

-

5 (100)

1 (20)

-

-

2 (40)

2 (40)

UK (31)

5 (17)

10 (33)

12 (40)

3 (10)

4 (14)

4 (14)

4 (14)

16 (57)

5 (18)

1 (3)

3 (11)

2 (7)

17 (21)

USA (22)

-

8 (36)

11 (50)

3 (14)

11 (50)

4 (20)

4 (20)

2 (10)

2 (9)

3 (14)

7 (32)

6 (27)

4 (18)

  1. Countries with fewer than four institutional responses: Namibia, Argentina, Brazil, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Chile, DRC, Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, India, Japan, Malta, Nepal, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Portugal, Qatar, Republic of Korea, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Thailand