NRIC - National Resource for Infection Control

NRIC logoThe National Resource for Infection Control (NRIC) was launched in May 2005 in response to the National Audit Office (2000/04) recommendations for a national infection control manual. The project is funded by the Department of Health (UK) and endorsed by the UK National electronic Library of Infection which is also managed by CeRC.

 

The overall aim of NRIC is to provide relevant evidence based, policy, guidance and quality information, published within the last 5 years on infection prevention and control and related infectious diseases to infection prevention and control professionals and other healthcare professionals in a timely manner. NRIC provides a portal where evidence based, quality assured local trust policies and guidelines can be shared between infection control professionals. Much of NRIC’s content is shared with the host site (NeLI) and increasingly research papers on NeLI are also relevant to NRIC users.

 

The target audience is primarily Infection

Increasingly because infection prevention and control is everybody’s business the audience now includes all healthcare professionals with patient, client contact or contact with the healthcare environment.

Prevention and Control Professionals.

Impact

NRIC has become a key portal and one stop shop for infection control policy, guidance, information, teaching materials and leaflets in priority areas as identified by the community of site users. The Reviewer’s Assessment, which is the value added feature of the library, distinguishes NRIC and NeLI from other Internet portals, which merely provide links to documents. Whilst valid for research the impact of NRIC/NeLI on public/professionals knowledge, attitudes and subsequent patient care also needs to be evaluated and research has been carried out to discover whether Internet resources are influencing clinical outcomes and Policy writing:

  • P. Kostkova, G. Madle: User-centred Evaluation Model for Medical Digital Libraries, D. Riaño (Ed.): K4HelP 2008, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 5626/2009, 10.1007/978-3-642-03262-2, pages 92-103, 2009
  • G. Madle, P. Kostkova, A. Roudsari. Impact-ED – A New Model of Digital Library Impact Evaluation. In the Proceedings of the ECDL 2008 conference, Aarhus, Denmark, September 2008, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 5173/2008, 10.1007/978-3-540-87599-4, pages 100-105
  • Madle G, Kostkova P, Wiseman S, Jawaheer G. Evaluation of the Impact of the National Resource for Infection control. Report for the DH. October 2008

Staff

  • Sue Wiseman provides infection prevention and control expertise, content management and promotes the site nationally and internationally in collaboration with the NeLI Team.
  • Dr Patty Kostkova leads the project team based at CeRC. She provides technical expertise and co-ordinates the day-to-day running of NRIC.
  • Professor Julius Weinberg provides senior public health and infectious disease expertise (Acting Vice Chancellor)
  • Gawesh Jawaheer provides technical support for the development and maintenance of the NRIC website.

 

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