Microbiology Infection Prevention Liaison and Outbreak Management Policy

13 pages. Sets out an eleven item alert organism list with notification timing and route, a scheduled cluster review with a named owner, and isolate retention periods by category so that relatedness can still be examined months later. Covers typing with comparator sets and what it can and cannot establish, environmental and personnel sampling permitted only under a written hypothesis, a ten step outbreak support process, and separation of outbreak from pseudo outbreak.