Fig. 1

Flow chart of hospital participation. Note: ^ Eligible hospitals were contacted using a variety of methods including email, via a professional association network (Australasian College for Infection Prevention and Control), blogs and Twitter. Hospitals were able to register their interest by contacting the research team. The research team maintained an expression of interest register. ^# The research team approached infection control teams to consider their interest in participating. * One hospital initially agreed to participate however indicated that they could not participate without financial support. Another site was unable to sign off on the Site Specific Assessment until the project had been reviewed by the jurisdictional legal office which was estimated to take up to 3 months. Time restriction meant this site was omitted, and another site that had previously shown interest was recruited