Frenette, Charles
Sperlea, David
German, Greg J.
Afra, Kevin
Boswell, Jennifer
Chang, Sandra
Goossens, Herman
Grant, Jennifer
Lefebvre, Marie-Astrid
McGeer, Allison
Mertz, Dominic
Science, Michelle
Versporten, Ann
Thirion, Daniel J. G. http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2474-2186
Article History
Received: 10 February 2020
Accepted: 11 June 2020
First Online: 11 July 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: Participation in the Global-PPS was deemed a quality improvement project through the Canadian Nosocomial Infection Surveillance Program and therefore express approval from Ethics Board Comities was not needed. The Canadian Nosocomial Infection Surveillance Program is a collaborative effort of the Canadian Hospital Epidemiology Committee, a subcommittee of the Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease Canada and the Centre for Communicable Diseases and Infection Control of the Public Health Agency of Canada.
: Not applicable.
: The authors report no competing interests.