Point prevalence survey for antimicrobial resistance and antimicrobial use in Canadian long-term care facilities.

The objective of the requirement is for IPAC Canada to engage their members over a three year period to promote the voluntary participation of their corresponding long-term care facilities (LTCF) to conduct a one-day point prevalence survey for antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and antimicrobial use (AMU) in the 2nd and 3rd year of the proposal. In the first year of the proposal IPAC Canada will prepare a protocol and re-develop a web-based data entry platform for the prevalence survey. In year 2 and 4, IPAC Canada will implement and monitor the prevalence at each participating LTCF.  At the end of the data collection period in year 2 and 3,  IPAC Canada will conduct a data extraction from its web-based platform and provide this data to PHAC in an electronic format (.CSV) that is suitable for analysis by statistical software. The data will consist of information on all LTCF residents who were colonised and/or infected with an antimicrobial resistant organisms and/or were treated with an antimicrobial agent on the day of the point prevalence survey.