Enterococcus -vancomycin-resistant (VRE)

Change it hospital policy Feb 8.16 stop "screening" certain patients for VRE but will continue with survellance of VRE

• Also see; Staff FAQ RE VRE]
• We will continue to track VRE bloodstream infections in the DX code, when they are ID'd. Hospitals will no longer be "screening" specific patient's if they are carriers of this pathogen nor will they be putting these patients on Contact Precaution.

Collector will still track as a DX if VRE in blood, but won't mark in TASK if contact precaution are not applied.

• at SBGH we are still isolating VRE positive pts and are still doing the screening for VRE, should we continue to fill this out in the tasks? in addition to coding?

They are no longer screening or isolating VRE pts at GGH. Lisa Kaita 14:50, 2016 February 8 (CST)

• The term "Surveillance " is no longer in effect for VRE either as patients will no longer have swabs done on admission.HSC has D/Cd this effective Feb 8th including Isolation precautions as described above.ID has stated all WRHA sites will follow these changes over next week or 2.--Llemoine 15:02, 2016 February 8 (CST)
• Further to VRE changes-we will not change all previous data/codes/tasks entered prior to Feb 8th.--Llemoine 15:09, 2016 February 8 (CST)

22 - Enterococcus -vancomycin-resistant (VRE)

NOTE: Database Task team meeting Nov 7.13

Template:Discussion Regarding coding of MRSA and VRE colonization. As has been pointed out before, this is problematic. Allan reported that Dr. Kumar has said he has no need for that information, and that Dr. Olafson indicated that MRSA colonization is needed for the national Vital Signs project. Julie reported that in the past 2 years there were 2 requests for data related to these variables. It was decided that Allan with contact Dr. Embil and see if we can obtain this data from Infection Control. If so, we could import it into the database, and have our data collectors cease obtaining it.Trish Ostryzniuk 17:50, 2013 November 7 (CST) Template:Discuss@task