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Surveillance of severe acute respiratory infections (SARI)
SARI surveillance in Ireland is a syndromic sentinel hospital surveillance project, which is part of a wider European network of SARI hospitals, E-SARI-NET. There is currently... -
Surveillance of antimicrobial consumption in Ireland
Data on antimicrobials dispensed by hospital pharmacies, and antimicrobials purchased by community pharmacies, are collected and converted into a standardised measure using the... -
Sentinel GP respiratory surveillance Previously Sentinel Flu Surveillance
The sentinel GP surveillance system is a collaborative surveillance project involving sentinel GPs, the Health Protection Surveillance Centre, the Irish College of General... -
National Serosurveillance Programme (NSP)
The National Serosurveillance Programme is the principal source of data on the seroprevalence of COVID-19 in Ireland. Purpose: The initial objective of the... -
National Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance (EARS-Net Ireland) Previously...
The European Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance System (EARSS) was established in 1999 in response to the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance in Europe. In 2010 EARSS... -
Hand Hygiene Compliance Monitoring
Compliance with World Health Organization (WHO) “Five Moments of Hand Hygiene” opportunities by healthcare workers in acute hospitals. Data from hand hygiene audit tools (MS... -
Enhanced Bacteraemia (Bloodstream infections) Surveillance in Ireland
Data on bacteraemia caused by selected pathogens is currently collected as part of the European Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance System (EARS-NET). EARS-NET was enhanced in... -
Computerised Infectious Disease Reporting (CIDR) system
CIDR is the information system developed to manage the surveillance and control of notifiable infectious diseases in Ireland. Case-based data on laboratory and clinical... -
Clostridioides difficile infection enhanced surveillance
Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) became a notifiable disease in May 2008. In August 2009, HPSC began collecting enhanced surveillance data on all CDI cases from acute...